Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
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.
  
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Biko
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Ndo
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Ibo
  
French Name
mongol
  
igbo
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Standard Igbo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Mongolian and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Igbo language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Igbo Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Igbo 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 Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.