Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
mongol
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
3
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional