Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-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)
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
mongol
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic