1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Mongolia
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Not Available
1.8 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.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
1.9 Similar To
Turkish Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Thai and Lao Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
3.2 Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
3.3 How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
3.4 Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
3.5 Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
3.7 Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
3.8 Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
3.9 Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
3.10 Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
Sôhk dii der
3.11 I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
3.12 Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Vientiane Lao
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Northern Lao
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
123,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Central Lao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.70 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.70 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
pʰáːsǎː láːw
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Mongolic family
Tai-Kadai Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No Early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Lao
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology