Countries
China, Mongolia
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
136
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2024
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Ħello
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Grazzi
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Kif int?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Skużani!
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Ċaw
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Qormi
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Malta
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Malta
How Many People Speak
123,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Not Present
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
82
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million0.52 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Malti
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Malti
French Name
mongol
maltais
German Name
Mongolisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Maltese
Origin
1224-1225
c. 1470
Language Family
Mongolic family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Maltese
Language Position
2625
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
mon
mlt
ISO 639 3
mon
mlt
ISO 639 6
mon
mlt
Glottocode
mong1331
malt1254
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic