Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1324
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2023
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Wu
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
123,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Yue
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
810
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
mongol
chinois
German Name
Mongolisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Han
Origin
1224-1225
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
261
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
zho
ISO 639 2/B
mon
chi
ISO 639 3
mon
zho
ISO 639 6
mon
zho
Glottocode
mong1331
sini1245
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating