Countries
China, Mongolia
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
136
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, 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)
Henda ho
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
संध्यायान
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Boge Setak’
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
দয়া করে
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
দুঃখিত
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Hariau
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Mahali
Where They Speak
Mongolia
India
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Not present
Where They Speak
Mongolia
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How Many People Speak
123,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Not present
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
mongol
santal
German Name
Mongolisch
Santali
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
1224-1225
20th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Austroasiatic 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
Santali
Language Position
2641
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
sat
ISO 639 2/B
mon
sat
ISO 639 3
mon
sat
ISO 639 6
mon
sat
Glottocode
mong1331
sant1410
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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