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Mongolian
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Countries

Countries

China, Mongolia

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

China, Mongolia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)

Interesting Facts

  • Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
  • There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.

Similar To

Turkish Language

Derived From

-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

13
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script

Writing Direction

-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 17 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Сайн уу (Sain uu)

Thank You

та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)

How Are You?

Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)

Good Night

Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)

Good Evening

Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)

Good Afternoon

Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)

Good Morning

Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)

Please

Хэрэв (Kherev)

Sorry

Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)

Bye

Баяртай (Bayartai)

I Love You

Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)

Excuse Me

Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Khalkha Mongolian

Where They Speak

Mongolia

How Many People Speak

6,000,000.00
Rank: 44 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ordos Mongolian

Where They Speak

Mongolia

How Many People Speak

123,000.00
Rank: 79 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Khorchin Mongolian

Where They Speak

Mongolia

How Many People Speak

5,700,000.00
Rank: 35 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

5.70 million
Rank: 68 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.14 %
Rank: 53 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.70 million
Rank: 61 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.01 400
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Native Name

монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)

Alternative Names

Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat

French Name

mongol

German Name

Mongolisch

Pronunciation

/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/

Ethnicity

Mongols

History

Origin

1224-1225

Language Family

Mongolic family

Subgroup

Mongolian

Branch

-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian

Standard Forms

Khalkha, Southern Mongolian

Language Position

26
Rank: 24 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

Mongolian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

mn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mon

ISO 639 2/B

mon

ISO 639 3

mon

ISO 639 6

mon

Glottocode

mong1331

Linguasphere

part of 44-BAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Know Alphabets in Mongolian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Mongolian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Mongolian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Mongolian. Mongolian phonology gives Mongolian vowels and Mongolian consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Mongolian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Mongolian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Mongolian language is given in detail in this section.

All Mongolian countries

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  • Countries that use Mongolian as second language are: .

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Learn Mongolian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Mongolian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Mongolian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Mongolian language.Learn Mongolian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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  • Good Morning:
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon:

All Mongolian Language Codes

Get to know all Mongolian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Mongolian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.