Countries
China, Mongolia
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
mongol
  
népalais
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative