Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Nepal
National Language
China, Mongolia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Turkish Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
mongol
tibétain
German Name
Mongolisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
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Ethnicity
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tibetan people
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mong1331
tibe1272
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Mongolian and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Mongolian and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Mongolian and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Mongolian are spoken in different Mongolian Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Mongolian vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Mongolian dialects include: Khalkha Mongolian, Ordos Mongolian. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Mongolian and Tibetan Speaking population
Mongolian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Mongolian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Mongolian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Mongolian language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Mongolian and Tibetan on Mongolian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Mongolian and Tibetan Language Codes
Mongolian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Mongolian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.