Mongolic-Khitan · ISO 639-3 mvf
Peripheral Mongolian Language
Peripheral Mongolian is a Mongolic-Khitan language spoken by about 3.4 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Mongolian and Latin scripts.
Where Peripheral Mongolian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Peripheral Mongolian
Language family
- Mongolic-Khitan
- Mongolic
- Eastern Mongolic
- Khalkha-Buriat
- Mongolian
- Peripheral Mongolian
Writing system
Mongolian and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Peripheral Mongolian language
Peripheral Mongolian is spoken by about 3.4 million people, which makes it the 229th most spoken language in the world — just behind Pattani Malay (3.4 million) and ahead of Hmong Daw (3.4 million). It belongs to the Mongolic-Khitan language family and, more precisely, to the Mongolian group within the Eastern Mongolic branch.
Where is Peripheral Mongolian spoken?
Peripheral Mongolian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in China (3.4 million).
Peripheral Mongolian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Peripheral Mongolian is written in the Mongolian and Latin scripts. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Halh Mongolian, Mongolian and Buriat.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 mvf.
Frequently asked questions about Peripheral Mongolian
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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.