Countries
China, Mongolia
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
China, Mongolia
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3536
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
139
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2027
9
60
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
rakhmat
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
birdam
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
kachurung
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Turpan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Hotan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
123,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
5,700,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
87
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.70 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.70 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
mongol
ouïgour
German Name
Mongolisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Mongols
Uyghur
Origin
1224-1225
11
Language Family
Mongolic family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Uyghur
Language Position
2698
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
mn
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mon
uig
ISO 639 2/B
mon
uig
ISO 639 3
mon
uig
ISO 639 6
mon
uig
Glottocode
mong1331
uigh1240
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-