Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Nepal
National Language
China, Mongolia
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Turkish Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
mongol
tibétain
German Name
Mongolisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
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Ethnicity
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tibetan people
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mong1331
tibe1272
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Mongolian and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Tibetan language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.