Jan-Olof Svantesson is Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University. His work has focussed on the phonology of Mongolian and on the Mon-Khmer language Kammu, of which he is preparing a dictionary. Anna Tsendina is a senior researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She is a native speaker of Mongolian and an expert on Old Mongolian texts. Anastasia Karlsson is a PhD student in phonetics at Lund University. Vivan Franzen is a PhD student in general linguistics at Lund University.