Countries
China, Mongolia
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Antartica, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish 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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Norwegian and Danish Language
Derived From
-
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
139
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
hej
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
tacka dig
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
hur mår du
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
godnatt
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
god kväll
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
god eftermiddag
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
god morgon
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
vänligen
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ledsen
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
hej då
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
jag älskar dig
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ursäkta mig
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Dialects
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Gabon
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Dialects
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Georgia
How Many People Speak
123,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Dialects
Where They Speak
Mongolia
France
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
879
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million15.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Svenska
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Ruotsi, Svenska
French Name
mongol
suédois
German Name
Mongolisch
Schwedisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Swedes, Finland Swedes
Origin
1224-1225
13th Century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Swedish
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Swedish
Language Position
2689
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
sv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
swe
ISO 639 2/B
mon
swe
ISO 639 3
mon
swe
ISO 639 6
mon
swe
Glottocode
mong1331
swed1254
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
52-AAA-ck to -cw
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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