Serbi–Mongolic languages

Serbi–Mongolic is a proposed group of languages that includes the Mongolic languages as well as the Para-Mongolic languages, a proposed extinct sister branch of the Mongolic languages.

Names
Serbi (*serbi) is Shimunek's reconstruction for the historical ethnonym Xianbei (鮮卑).

In Glottolog 4.4, the languages are referred to as Mongolic–Khitan.

Languages
Below is a preliminary classification of the Serbi–Mongolic languages in Shimunek (2017:35):


 * Serbi–Mongolic
 * Mongolic
 * Central Mongolic languages
 * Eastern Central Mongolic
 * Khalkha Mongolian
 * Khorchin Mongolian
 * Chakhar Mongolian
 * Oirat
 * Kalmyk
 * Ordos Mongolian
 * Southern Mongolic languages
 * Shirongolic
 * Mongour
 * Dongxiang
 * Bonan
 * Santa
 * Kangjia
 * Shira Yugur
 * Daur
 * Moghol
 * Serbi–Awar (= Juha Janhunen's "Para-Mongolic" )
 * Awar (Avar) (Wuhuan 烏桓 or Wuwan 烏丸)
 * Old Serbi (Common Serbi)
 * Ch’i-fu/Qifu 乞伏 (northern Early Middle Chinese/NEMC *kʰɨrbuwk)
 * Tuan/Duan 段 (NEMC *dɔr̃)
 * Tabghach
 * Tuyuhun/T’u-yü-hun (Mu-jung/Murong 慕容)
 * Kitanic (Yü-wen/Yuwen 宇文)
 * Old Kitan
 * Qay 奚 (NEMC *ɣay)
 * Shirwi proper 室韋 (*širwi/*širβi < *serbi 鮮卑 'Xianbei')

Sound changes
Phonological innovations from Common Serbi–Mongolic (i.e., Proto-Serbi–Mongolic) to Proto-Mongolic and Proto-Serbi are (Shimunek 2017:415):