Countries
China, Mongolia
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3554
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1318
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Vedda
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
123,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Mongolia
-
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
81
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
mongol
singhalais
German Name
Mongolisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Sinhalese people
Origin
1224-1225
3
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mon
sin
ISO 639 3
mon
sin
ISO 639 6
mon
sin
Glottocode
mong1331
sinh1246
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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Fusional