1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Mongolia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
China, Mongolia
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
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Turkish Language
1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Khalkha Mongolian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Mongolia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Mongolia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00123,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Mongolia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million5.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million5.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Mongolian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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