Countries
China, Mongolia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1310
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
123,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
813
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.70 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Русский
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Russki
French Name
mongol
russe
German Name
Mongolisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Russians
Origin
1224-1225
1000 AD
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Russian
Language Position
267
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mn
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
rus
ISO 639 2/B
mon
rus
ISO 639 3
mon
rus
ISO 639 6
mon
rus
Glottocode
mong1331
russ1263
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic