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