Countries
China, Mongolia
Hong Kong, Macau
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
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
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
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Hong Kong
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Not Available
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
mongol
Not Available
German Name
Mongolisch
Not Available
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
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Ethnicity
Not Available
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Origin
1224-1225
17th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 1
mn
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
mon
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
mon
Not Available
ISO 639 3
mon
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
mong1331
cant1236
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Mongolian and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Mongolian and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Cantonese language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Mongolian and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.