Countries
China, Mongolia
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
139
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
hallo
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
takk
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
god natt
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
god morgen
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Vær så snill
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
unnskyld
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
ha det
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Sogn
How Many People Speak
123,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
819
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Norsk
French Name
mongol
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Mongolisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Mongols
Norwegians
Origin
1224-1225
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2618
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mn
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
nor
ISO 639 2/B
mon
nor
ISO 639 3
mon
nor
ISO 639 6
mon
nor
Glottocode
mong1331
norw1258
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional