Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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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.
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Thai and Lao Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3574
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1314
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2060
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
39
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
zoo hmo
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
zoo tav su
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
thov
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Nyob zoo
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Kuv hlub koj
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
zam txim rau kuv
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Hmong Njua
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Laos
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Hmong Daw
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
123,000.001,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Hmong Do
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0031,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million4.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million3.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Hmong
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Mong
French Name
mongol
hmong
German Name
Mongolisch
Miao-Sprachen
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[môŋ]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Hmong people
Origin
1224-1225
19
Language Family
Mongolic family
Hmong–Mien Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
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Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Hmong
Language Position
2624
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Hmong Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
hmn
ISO 639 2/B
mon
hmn
ISO 639 3
mon
hmv
ISO 639 6
mon
hmn
Glottocode
mong1331
firs1234
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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