Countries
China, Mongolia
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1320
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2033
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
សូម
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
សូរី
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
123,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
mongol
khmer central
German Name
Mongolisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1224-1225
14
Language Family
Mongolic family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Khmer
Language Position
261
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
khm
ISO 639 2/B
mon
khm
ISO 639 3
mon
khm
ISO 639 6
mon
khm
Glottocode
mong1331
khme1253
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating