Countries
China, Mongolia
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Nepal
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3548
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1312
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
कृपया
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Mongolia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
123,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
mongol
népalais
German Name
Mongolisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1224-1225
19 BC
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Nepali
Language Position
2659
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mn
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mon
nep
ISO 639 3
mon
npi
ISO 639 6
mon
nep
Glottocode
mong1331
nepa1254
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative