1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Mongolia
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Mongolia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Not Available
1.8 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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Turkish Language
Farsi 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
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Sipas
3.3 How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Be xêr çî
3.11 I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
123,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.70 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.70 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
1224-1225
16th century CE
6.2 Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Kurdish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
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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Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
58-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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