Mongolian
official language of Mongolia
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Summary
Mongolian is a natural language[1]. Mongolian ranks in the top 5% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,935 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Mongolia[3], People's Republic of China[4]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[5], modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Mongolic[7]
- Writing system: ʼPhags-pa[8], Soyombo[9], Mongolian[10], Latin script[11], Cyrillic script[12], Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet[13], Tibetan alphabet[14], Braille script[15]
- Commons category: Mongolian language[16]
- Wikimedia language code: mn[17]
- Said to be the same as: Buryat[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mongolian language[19]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=943[20]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,200,000[21], 7,000,000[22]
- Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[23], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/mongolian[27]
- Native label: монгол хэл[28], ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ[29], ꡏꡡꡃ ꡢꡡꡙ ꡁꡦ ꡙꡦ[30]
- Different from: Mongol[31], Mongolien[32]
- Studied by: Mongolian studies[33]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MON[34], https://afbo.info/languages/120[35]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q25554694[36]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[37], genitive case[38], dative-locative case[39], accusative case[40], ablative case[41], instrumental case[42], comitative case[43]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[44], agglutinative language[45]
Why It Matters
Mongolian has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] Mongolian is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]