Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Russia
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1013
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
30,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Olonets
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
138
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
276.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
166.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Russki
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
russe
mongol
German Name
Russisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Russians
Mongols
Origin
1000 AD
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Slavic
Mongolian
Branch
Eastern
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
726
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ru
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
mon
ISO 639 2/B
rus
mon
ISO 639 3
rus
mon
ISO 639 6
rus
mon
Glottocode
russ1263
mong1331
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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