Countries
Estonia, European Union
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Gambia
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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
Finnish
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
913
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
aitäh
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
Head ööd
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
Palun
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Vabandust
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Head aega
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
ma armastan sind
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Vabandage
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
88
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.10 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
eesti keel
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
estonien
mongol
German Name
Estnisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Estonians
Mongols
Origin
13th century
1224-1225
Language Family
Uralic Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Mongolian
Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Estonian
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
2226
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
et
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
mon
ISO 639 2/B
est
mon
ISO 639 3
est
mon
ISO 639 6
est
mon
Glottocode
esto1258
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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