Countries
China, Mongolia
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1312
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2033
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Tangut
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)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
123,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Intha
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Burma
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
85
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
mongol
birman
German Name
Mongolisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Bamar people
Origin
1224-1225
1113 AD
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Burmese
Language Position
2643
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
mya
ISO 639 2/B
mon
bur
ISO 639 3
mon
mya
ISO 639 6
mon
mya
Glottocode
mong1331
sout3159
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating