Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
Please
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
dansk
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Not Available
  
French Name
danois
  
mongol
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
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
  
Not Available