Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
813
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1320
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
43
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Kiitos
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
haluta
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Anteeksi
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Heippa
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Finland
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
60,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
218
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
finnois
mongol
German Name
Finnisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Mongols
Origin
1543
1224-1225
Language Family
Uralic Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Mongolian
Branch
Finnic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
2226
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fi
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mon
ISO 639 2/B
fin
mon
ISO 639 3
fin
mon
ISO 639 6
fin
mon
Glottocode
finn1318
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, Synthetic
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