Countries
China, Mongolia
  
European Union, Hungary, Serbia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Austria, Gambia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Austria, Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
known, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézete)
  
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.
  
- Hungarian language has only preserved most of its ancient elements.
- 'Magyar' is the Hungarian name for the language, the 'Magyar' is also used as an English word to refer to Hungarian people.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Mansi and Khanty Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
East and South Slavic Languages
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hungarian-alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
szia
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
köszönöm
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Hogy vagy?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Jó Éjszakát
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
jó Estét
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Jó Napot Kívánok
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
jó Reggelt
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Kérlek
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
bocsi
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
viszlát
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Szeretlek
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
elnézést
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Csángó
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Bacău County, Rumania
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Oberwart
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Austria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Székely
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Székely Land
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.07 million
  
38
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
magyar / magyar nyelv
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Magyar
  
French Name
mongol
  
hongrois
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Ungarisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ˈmɒɟɒr]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Hungarians
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
1192 AD
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ugric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old Hungarian
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Modern Hungarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
hu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
hun
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
hun
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
hun
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
hung1274
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
ohu
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic