1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Mongolia
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Mongolia
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Turkish Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
早上好
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
遗憾
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
123,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.70 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.70 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available