Countries
China, Mongolia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Turkish Language
German and English Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
136
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Hallo
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
dankjewel
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
goede Nacht
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
goedemiddag
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
goedemorgen
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
alsjeblieft
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
sorry
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
vaarwel
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
pardon
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Gronings
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Netherlands
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
123,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
87
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million22.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
mongol
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Mongolisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Dutch people
Origin
1224-1225
AD 450-500
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Dutch
Language Position
2648
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
nld
ISO 639 2/B
mon
dut
ISO 639 3
mon
nld
ISO 639 6
mon
nld
Glottocode
mong1331
mode1257
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic