Mongolian

Also known as Mongolian language, Mongol, Khalka

official language of Mongolia

OverviewAI-generated

Mongolian is a language designated by the Wikimedia language code "mn" and categorized under "Mongolian language" in Commons. It is abbreviated as "монг." in standard tables. The language has approximately 7,000,000 speakers, writers, or signers.

The language is referenced by 3,647 other encyclopedia articles. It is described at a URL hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Additionally, it appears in the ABVD database, titled "ABVD: Mongol 蒙古语," which is a Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary. The language also has a tag on Linguistics Stack Exchange.

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Described at

ABVD: Mongol 蒙古语

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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Encyclopedic overview

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, Central 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mongolian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.