Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Guangdong
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2835
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
813
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
您好
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
谢谢
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
你好吗?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
晚安
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
晚上好
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
下午好
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
早上好
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
请
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
遗憾
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
再见
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
我爱你
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
原谅我
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Xiguan
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
cantonais
mongol
German Name
Kantonesisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Mongols
Origin
17th century
1224-1225
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
-
Mongolian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
126
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
mon
ISO 639 2/B
yue
mon
ISO 639 3
No data available
mon
ISO 639 6
yue
mon
Glottocode
cant1236
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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