Countries
China, Mongolia
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3599
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
135
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2014
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Hakata
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
123,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Kansai
Where They Speak
Mongolia
kansai
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
831
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
日本語
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Nihongo
French Name
mongol
japonais
German Name
Mongolisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
1224-1225
1185
Language Family
Mongolic family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Japanese
Language Position
268
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
mon
jpn
ISO 639 3
mon
jpn
ISO 639 6
mon
jpn
Glottocode
mong1331
nucl1643
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic