Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-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)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
günaydın
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
mongol
  
turc
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Turkish
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic