Mongolic-Khitan · ISO 639-3 khk
Halh Mongolian Language
Halh Mongolian is a Mongolic-Khitan language spoken by about 5.2 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Halh Mongolian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Halh Mongolian
Language family
- Mongolic-Khitan
- Mongolic
- Eastern Mongolic
- Khalkha-Buriat
- Mongolian
- Halh Mongolian
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Halh Mongolian language
Halh Mongolian is spoken by about 5.2 million people, which makes it the 180th most spoken language in the world — just behind Lao (5.2 million) and ahead of Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) (5.2 million). It belongs to the Mongolic-Khitan language family and, more precisely, to the Mongolian group within the Eastern Mongolic branch.
Where is Halh Mongolian spoken?
Halh Mongolian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Mongolia (5.2 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Mongolia — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Halh Mongolian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Halh Mongolian is written in the Cyrillic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Peripheral Mongolian, Mongolian and Buriat.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 khk.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.