Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
mongol
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
1561
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic