Countries
China, Mongolia
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
136
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
123,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
858
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Balgarski
French Name
mongol
bulgare
German Name
Mongolisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Bulgarian people
Origin
1224-1225
9th Century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2688
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
bul
ISO 639 2/B
mon
bul
ISO 639 3
mon
bul
ISO 639 6
mon
buls
Glottocode
mong1331
bulg1262
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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