Countries
China, Mongolia
India, Nepal
National Language
China, Mongolia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
कृपया
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Doteli
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Mongolia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Nepal
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
mongol
népalais
German Name
Mongolisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mong1331
nepa1254
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
Mongolian and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Nepali language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Nepali Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.
