Countries
China, Mongolia
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3524
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
137
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Greece
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Griko
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Italy
How Many People Speak
123,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
825
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
mongol
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Mongolisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
1224-1225
1500 BC
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Greek
Language Position
2674
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
ell
ISO 639 2/B
mon
gre
ISO 639 3
mon
ell
ISO 639 6
mon
ells
Glottocode
mong1331
gree1276
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic