Countries
China, Mongolia
Myanmar
National Language
China, Mongolia
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Not Available
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Tangut
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Myanmar
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Intha
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Burma
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
mongol
birman
German Name
Mongolisch
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Bamar people
Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Modern Burmese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mong1331
sout3159
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating
Mongolian and Burmese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Mongolian and Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Burmese language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Burmese Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Burmese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Mongolian and Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.