Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
mongol
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available