For many people in the Western world, Mongolia is a faraway destination. They may know about Genghis Khan, but not much else. After centuries of Chinese rule, one common misconception is that Mongolian speak Chinese. While some surely do, in Mongolia, they speak Mongolian. It is an ancient and interesting language, full of cool ways to express ideas. It has undergone a few changes since it was spoken by Genghis Khan. The Mongolian language is spoken in several places. It’s in the country Mongolia, or Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, a region of China and Buryatia, a region in Russia. The Buryats speak a different, but closely related, language. The Mongolian language is part of the Altaic language family, which is named after the Altai Mountains in the Western part of Mongolia. This is links them with other Turkic languages, as well as Korean and Japanese. However, this idea is losing popularity among linguists. MostMongolian Accent Mongolians in Outer Mongolia speak Khalkha Mongolian. It’s the one that’s taught in school. There are more diverse dialects spoken in Inner Mongolia, in China. Mongolian’s earliest known roots are with Khitan, is a proto-Mongolic language. They inscribed their Chinese inspired Mongolian Accent characters on many stones to mark noble tombs. There are around 1 Mongolian Accent7 monuments with inscriptions in one version of the script. The script inspired the Jurchen script, which was used in Northeastern China. It’s unclear whether they were Mongolians or a Turkic tribe that lived in Central Asia. However, you can see some of these inscriptions at Mongolia’s History Museum.Most scholars divide the history of the Mongolian language into three periods: Old/Ancient Mongolian, Middle Mongolian and the New/Modern Mongolian. These periods roughly correspond to the 12th century, 13th-16th centuries and 17th century to the present, respectively. There are few surviving examples of Old Mongolian. Linguists have reconstructed the language by comparing the records that do exist with other languages. They see what has been borrowed from other languages to try and discover what exactly the language would have sounded like. The tr……

This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East and North Asia. Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia and a recognized language of Xinjiang and Qinghai.The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5–6 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia of China. In Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolian is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian script. In Inner Mongolia, it is dialectally more diverse and written in the traditional Mongolian script. However, Mongols in both countries often use the Latin script for convenience on the Internet.In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian treated is the standard written Khalkha formalized in the writing conventions and in grammar as taught in schools, but much of it is also valid for vernacular (spoken) Khalkha and other Mongolian dialects, especially Chakhar Mongolian.Some classify several other Mongolic languages like Buryat and Oirat as varieties of Mongolian, but this classification is not in line with the current international standard.Mongolian is a language with vowel harmony and a complex syllabic structure compared to other Mongolic languages, allowing clusters of up to three consonants syllable-finally. It is a typical agglutinative language that relies on suffix chains in the verbal and nominal domains. While there is a basic word order, , ordering among noun phrases is relatively free, as grammatical roles are indicated by a system of about eight grammatical cases. There are five voices. Verbs are marked for voice, aspect, tense and /evidentiality. In sentence linking, a special role is played by converbs.Modern ……

If you have ever heard people conversing in Mongolian, and thought that it’s unlike any other language you’ve ever heard- don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Mongolian language is an Altaic language which means that only Turkic and Tungusic languages are in one group with it. Some studies have added Japanese and Korean language in the group too, but most of the authors disagree on this one.Out of around dozen different accents of the Mongolian, changing in different aimag (regions in Mongolia), Khalkh Mongolian is spoken by the majority of the population- around 2.35 million out of 3 million. However, the accent can get pretty tricky in different parts of the land, the difference is almost inevitable for the natives.Mongolians use Cyrillic alphabet which consists of 35 letters. 7 of them are vowels, and 2 of them are signs and the rest are consonants. Mongolian alphabet and linguistic history can go back as far as 1200 years, varying in kinds including Mongolian script, rectangular script and even Latin letters, finally being decided in Cyrillic in only 1943. We have adapted Cyrillic letter due to the fact that Mongolia has been part of the Comintern- association of the communist countries during the WWII.Science aside, Mongolia is simply a pretty hard language to learn. Maybe the fact that vowels are separated into masculine and feminine group that makes huge difference in not only the aspect of speaking but also in the grammar, or the fact that it is a language that’s spoken by pretty few people and hard to practice unless you live in Mongolia. The alphabet is bigger than most of the other countries and the stress in the parts of the word can make a huge difference in its meaning. Commonly asked questionsAs I’ve mentioned before, foreigners have found Mongolian language hard to learn because the learning sources are really rare unless you’re in Mongolia. Also the main basics of the grammar and the general accent are so different from most of the other languages.By Mongolians in China, I believe that the person has asked about the Inner Mongolians. Inner Mongolians used to use Mongolian script as their official script, but now the ……