1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Mongolia
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Mongolia
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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)
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Turkish Language
Xhosa Language
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
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)
Sawubona
3.2 Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
unjani
3.4 Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Mongolia
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
123,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Ndebele
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.70 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
isiZulu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Mongolic family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Deep Zulu
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
99-AUT-fg
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
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