Countries
China, Mongolia
  
European Union, Lithuania
  
National Language
China, Mongolia
  
Lithuania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
  
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.
  
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
Similar To
Turkish Language
  
Latvian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
Ačiū
  
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Kaip sekasi?
  
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Labanakt
  
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Labas vakaras
  
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Laba diena
  
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Labas rytas
  
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Prašom
  
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
atsiprašau
  
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
Ate
  
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Aš myliu tave
  
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Atsiprašau
  
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Samogitian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
  
Aukštaitian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Curonian
  
Where They Speak
Mongolia
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak?
5.70 million
  
99+
3.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.70 million
  
99+
3.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
lietuvių kalba
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
French Name
mongol
  
lituanien
  
German Name
Mongolisch
  
Litauisch
  
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Lithuanians
  
Origin
1224-1225
  
c. 1503
  
Language Family
Mongolic family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Mongolian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Baltic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Lithuanian
  
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mn
  
lt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mon
  
lit
  
ISO 639 2/B
mon
  
lit
  
ISO 639 3
mon
  
lit
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mong1331
  
lith1251
  
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
  
54-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Mongolian and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Lithuanian language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.