Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Mongolia
National Language
China, Taiwan
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Japanese and Korean Languages
Turkish Language
Alphabets in
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Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Mongolia
Dialect 2
Wu
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Mongolia
Dialect 3
Yue
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Mongolia
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Zhongwen, Hanyu
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
chinois
mongol
German Name
Chinesisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Glottocode
sini1245
mong1331
Linguasphere
79-AAA
part of 44-BAA-b
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Mongolian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Mongolian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Mongolian language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Mongolian word for "Thank You" is та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Mongolian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Mongolian Difficulty
The Chinese vs Mongolian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Mongolian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Mongolian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Mongolian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Mongolian time required is 44 weeks.