Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Wu
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Yue
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
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French Name
mongol
chinois
German Name
Mongolisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
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Ethnicity
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Han
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
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Branch
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Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Chinese
Language Position
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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 6
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Glottocode
mong1331
sini1245
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Mongolian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Chinese language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.