Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3535
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
135
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
123,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
mongol
tibétain
German Name
Mongolisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Mongols
tibetan people
Origin
1224-1225
c. 650
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2629
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
mn
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mon
tib
ISO 639 3
mon
bod
ISO 639 6
mon
bod
Glottocode
mong1331
tibe1272
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-