1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Mongolia
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Mongolia
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
1.9 Similar To
Turkish Language
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1.10 Derived From
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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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan 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)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
123,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.70 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.70 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
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5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Mongolic family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
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
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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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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