Mongolic-Khitan · ISO 639-3 mon · mn
Mongolian Language Монгол
Mongolian is a Mongolic-Khitan language spoken by about 6.5 million people in 3 countries. It is an official language of Mongolia. It is written in the Cyrillic, Mongolian and Latin scripts.
Where Mongolian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Mongolian
Language family
- Mongolic-Khitan
- Mongolic
- Eastern Mongolic
- Mongolian
Writing system
Cyrillic, Mongolian, Latin and Soyombo scripts
Related languages
About the Mongolian language
Mongolian (Монгол) is spoken by about 6.5 million people. It belongs to the Mongolic-Khitan language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Mongolic group within the Eastern Mongolic branch.
Where is Mongolian spoken?
Mongolian is used in 3 countries. The largest communities live in China (3.7 million), Mongolia (3.1 million) and Russia (4,647). More than half of the population speaks it in Mongolia — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Mongolian: China 0.3% (3.7 million), Mongolia 93% (3.1 million) and Russia <0.1% (4,647).
Mongolian is an official language in 1 country: Mongolia. It also has regional official status in China.
Writing system and status
Mongolian is written in the Cyrillic, Mongolian, Latin and 1 more scripts.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Halh Mongolian, Peripheral Mongolian and Buriat.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 mn, ISO 639-3 mon.
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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.