Countries
China, Mongolia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3547
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
138
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2022
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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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)
pranam
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Suprabhaat
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
kripaya
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
maf karai
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Alavidā
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Mongolia
North India
How Many People Speak
123,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Khortha
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
815
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
mongol
maithili
German Name
Mongolisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Maithil
Origin
1224-1225
14th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European 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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2640
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
mai
ISO 639 2/B
mon
mai
ISO 639 3
mon
mai
ISO 639 6
mon
mai
Glottocode
mong1331
mait1250
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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