Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Hello
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Good Morning
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Please
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Sorry
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Bye
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
1,200.00 million
  
1
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
French Name
mongol
  
anglais
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Standard English
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic