Countries
China, Mongolia
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3536
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
138
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
kedụ
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
dalụ
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Biko
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Ndo
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Kachifo
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
123,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Not present
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
igbo
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Ibo
French Name
mongol
igbo
German Name
Mongolisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Igbo people
Origin
1224-1225
30th Century BC
Language Family
Mongolic family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2657
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
mon
ibo
ISO 639 3
mon
ibo
ISO 639 6
mon
ibo
Glottocode
mong1331
nucl1417
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative