Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Germany
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
mongol
  
allemand
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Germans
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Mongolian and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and German language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs German Difficulty
The Mongolian vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.