Countries
China, Mongolia
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Dzongkha Development 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3595
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
135
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Tsip maza
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Laya
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Lunana
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
123,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Adap
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
mongol
dzongkha
German Name
Mongolisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Ngalop people
Origin
1224-1225
17th Century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Dzongkha
Language Position
2631
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
mon
dzo
ISO 639 3
mon
dzo
ISO 639 6
mon
dzo
Glottocode
mong1331
nucl1307
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-