Countries
China, Mongolia
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-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)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
maaf
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
mongol
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Indonesian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
indo1316
  
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
  
Mongolian and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Indonesian language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.