Mongolian is the principal Mongolic language and the official language of Mongolia, spoken by five to six million people across Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Qinghai in China, Buryatia in Russia, and the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. Modern Mongolian evolved from Middle Mongol, the language of the thirteenth and fourteenth century Mongol Empire, and is written today in Mongolian Cyrillic in Mongolia and in the traditional vertical Mongolian script in China.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2020-2022 estimates range five to six million across all dialects; 5.5 million used as a midpoint. Attested From (Year)The Stele of Yisungge, the earliest surviving Mongolian text, is most often dated to 1224 or 1225. RegionMongolia (official); Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Qinghai (China); Buryatia (Russia); Issyk-Kul Region (Kyrgyzstan) 2 Classification
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It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East, Central and North Asia.
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1. Glottolog: Halh Mongolian (Glottolog halh1238)
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Mongolian, Halh (khk-khk) = 1 (National).
2. Wikipedia: Mongolian Language
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Mongolian belongs to the Mongolic languages
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most often dated at 1224 or 1225
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Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and is also a recognized language of Xinjiang and Qinghai in China and Buryatia in Russia.
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4. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech * Estonian * Finnish * Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi * Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian * Mongolian
'Phags-pa script (Wikipedia)
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The script was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, and other neighboring languages during the Yuan era.
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