Countries
China, Mongolia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Dutch Language
Derived From
-
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1315
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
hallo
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Dankie
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
goeie nag
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
goeie more
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
asseblief
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
jammer
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Totsiens
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
123,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Namibia
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Cape Dutch
French Name
mongol
afrikaans
German Name
Mongolisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Afrikaners
Origin
1224-1225
17th Century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2623
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
afr
ISO 639 2/B
mon
afr
ISO 639 3
mon
afr
ISO 639 6
mon
afrs
Glottocode
mong1331
afri1274
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic