Countries
China, Mongolia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
China, Mongolia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Русский
Alternative Names
Not Available
Russki
German Name
Mongolisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Not Available
Russians
Language Family
Mongolic family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mong1331
russ1263
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Mongolian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Russian language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Russian Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.