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Mongolian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Mongolian


Countries

Countries
China, Mongolia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
13  
10
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
123,000.00  
34
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Mongolia  
China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
5.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
mongol  
tibétain  

German Name
Mongolisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1224-1225  
c. 650  

Language Family
Mongolic family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Mongolian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
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Language Forms
  
  

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  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
mn  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mon  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
mon  
tib  

ISO 639 3
mon  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
mong1331  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
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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.

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Mongolian and Tibetan Speaking population

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Mongolian and Tibetan Language Codes

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