Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-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)
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
sorry
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
mongol
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Standard Dutch
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Mongolian and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Dutch language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Dutch Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Dutch 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 Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.