Countries
China, Mongolia
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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)
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3557
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
137
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2050
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Sawubona
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
unjani
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
bye
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
123,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
84
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million12.00 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)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
mongol
zoulou
German Name
Mongolisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Zulu people
Origin
1224-1225
19
Language Family
Mongolic family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2687
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
zul
ISO 639 2/B
mon
zul
ISO 639 3
mon
zul
ISO 639 6
mon
zul
Glottocode
mong1331
zulu1248
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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