Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
72
0
46
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National Language
Germany
China, Mongolia
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
Albanian Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1013
0
32
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How Many Consonants
920
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
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Danke
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
gute Nacht
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
guten Abend
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
guten Morgen
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
bitte
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Verzeihung
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Tschüs
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Swabian German
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Germany
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
820,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Texas German
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Texas
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
6,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
288
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.39 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
101.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
128.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Deutsch
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
allemand
mongol
German Name
Deutsch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Germans
Mongols
Origin
6th Century AD
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Germanic
Mongolian
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed German
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
de
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
deu
mon
ISO 639 2/B
ger
mon
ISO 639 3
deu
mon
ISO 639 6
deus
mon
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
mong1331
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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