Countries
China, Mongolia
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
-
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1310
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
209
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
hallo
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Danke
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
guten Tag
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
guten Morgen
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
bitte
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Verzeihung
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Tschüs
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Swiss German
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Switzerland
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Germany
How Many People Speak
123,000.00820,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Texas German
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Texas
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.006,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
828
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million229.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %1.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million101.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million128.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
mongol
allemand
German Name
Mongolisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Germans
Origin
1224-1225
6th Century AD
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
269
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
de
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
deu
ISO 639 2/B
mon
ger
ISO 639 3
mon
deu
ISO 639 6
mon
deus
Glottocode
mong1331
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic