41. From the middle of the 12th century the Mongolic tribes predominated almost in all the territory of modern Mongolia. 42. In 1386 1403, the Kingdom of Georgia faced eight Turco-Mongolic invasions under the leadership of Tamerlane. 43. They noted that there was little vocabulary shared by Turkic and Tungusic languages, though more shared with Mongolic languages. 44. Tadun Khan of the Wuhuan ( died 207 AD ) was the ancestor of the proto-Mongolic Kumo Xi. 45. Volker Rybatzki points out the relative lexical purity of Mongolian in " The Mongolic Languages " ( 2003) 46. Yahballaha III ( 1245 1317 ) and Rabban Bar Sauma ( c . 1220 1294 ) were famous Mongolic Nestorian Christians. 47. The closest relative of the Mongolic languages appears to be the extinct language Khitan . but this has been widely disputed. 48. The classification and speaker numbers above follow Janhunen ( 2006 ) except for Southern Mongolic which follows Nugteren ( 2011 ). 49. More secular minded Salars have resorted to appropriating Tibetan or Moghol ( a Qinghai Mongolic Muslim group ) music as their own. 50. If this view proves to be correct, Khitan is, indeed, best classified as a Para-Mongolic language ."
