Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-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)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Russki
  
French Name
mongol
  
russe
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Russians
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic