Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Malaysia
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Thailand
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Turkish Language
Derived From
Tamil Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
613
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hai
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
terima kasih
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
sila
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
maaf
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Pekal
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
30,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Musi
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
248
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
175.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
77.00 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa melayu
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Malaysia
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
malais
mongol
German Name
Malaiisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Malaysian people
Mongols
Origin
c. 683 AD
1224-1225
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
-
Mongolian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
5426
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ms
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
msa
mon
ISO 639 2/B
may
mon
ISO 639 3
zsm
mon
ISO 639 6
may
mon
Glottocode
stan1306
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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