Countries
China, Mongolia
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Institute of the Estonian 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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
139
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Tere
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
aitäh
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Head ööd
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Tere päevast
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Tere hommikust
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Palun
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Vabandust
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Head aega
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Tartu
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
123,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Idamurre
Where They Speak
Mongolia
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
88
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Eesti keel
French Name
mongol
estonien
German Name
Mongolisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Estonians
Origin
1224-1225
13th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Estonian
Language Position
2622
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mn
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
est
ISO 639 2/B
mon
est
ISO 639 3
mon
est
ISO 639 6
mon
est
Glottocode
mong1331
esto1258
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative