Countries
China, Mongolia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3528
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
138
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
您好
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
谢谢
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
你好吗？
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
晚安
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
下午好
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
早上好
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
请
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
遗憾
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
再见
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
我爱你
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Mongolia
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
123,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
mongol
cantonais
German Name
Mongolisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Han Chinese
Origin
1224-1225
17th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
261
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
mn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mon
yue
ISO 639 3
mon
No data available
ISO 639 6
mon
yue
Glottocode
mong1331
cant1236
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-