Countries
China, Mongolia
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3537
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
135
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2046
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
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-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Mhoro
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Masikati
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Mangwanani
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Ndineurombo
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
bye
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Karanga
Where They Speak
Mongolia
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
123,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Zezuru
Where They Speak
Mongolia
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
mongol
shona
German Name
Mongolisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Shona people
Origin
1224-1225
20th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Shona
Language Position
26107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
sna
ISO 639 2/B
mon
sna
ISO 639 3
mon
sna
ISO 639 6
mon
sna
Glottocode
mong1331
core1255
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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