Countries
China, Mongolia
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
138
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2013
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Moi
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Kiitos
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
haluta
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Anteeksi
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Heippa
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Finland
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Rauma
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
123,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
821
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Suomi
French Name
mongol
finnois
German Name
Mongolisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Mongols
ethnic Finns
Origin
1224-1225
1543
Language Family
Mongolic family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
standard Finnish
Language Position
2622
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
fin
ISO 639 2/B
mon
fin
ISO 639 3
mon
fin
ISO 639 6
mon
fin
Glottocode
mong1331
finn1318
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, Synthetic