Countries
China, Mongolia
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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 Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
136
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2023
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Arabic
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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)
سلام
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
متشکرم
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
صبح به خیر
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
لطفا
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
متاسف
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Western Persian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
123,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million65.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
mongol
persan
German Name
Mongolisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Persian people
Origin
1224-1225
1500 BC
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Persian
Language Position
2623
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
fas
ISO 639 2/B
mon
per
ISO 639 3
mon
pes
ISO 639 6
mon
pers
Glottocode
mong1331
fars1254
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic