Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
China, Mongolia
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
Please
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
Bye
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
5.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
Not Available
  
Native Name
English
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
anglais
  
mongol
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available