Countries
China, Mongolia
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
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.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Finnish-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)
  
Moi
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Finland, Rauma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Suomi
  
French Name
mongol
  
finnois
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
1543
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Mongolian and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Finnish language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Finnish Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.