Countries
China, Mongolia
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1312
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2017
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
e dupe
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
e kaasan
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
e kaaro
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Jowo
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
binu
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
bye
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Ede
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
123,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
mongol
yoruba
German Name
Mongolisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Yoruba people
Origin
1224-1225
4 BC
Language Family
Mongolic family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Yorùbá
Language Position
2649
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
yor
ISO 639 2/B
mon
yor
ISO 639 3
mon
yor
ISO 639 6
mon
yor
Glottocode
mong1331
yoru1245
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating