1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Mongolia
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Turkish Language
Not Available
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
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
123,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.70 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.70 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
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 Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating