Countries
China, Mongolia
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
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)
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
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 Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Spanish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
135
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
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 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Kaixo
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Gabon
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Egun on
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Mesedez
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Barkatu
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Agur
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
France
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Souletin
Where They Speak
Mongolia
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
123,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Biscayan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Spain
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million7.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million7.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
mongol
basque
German Name
Mongolisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Basque people
Origin
1224-1225
c. 1000
Language Family
Mongolic family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Basque
Language Position
2630
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
mn
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
eus
ISO 639 2/B
mon
baq
ISO 639 3
mon
eus
ISO 639 6
mon
eus
Glottocode
mong1331
basq1248
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative