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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. [ 1 ]
Mongolian languages, one of three families within the Altaic language group, spoken in Mongolia and adjacent parts of east-central Asia. Its spoken and written history consists of three periods: Old, Or Ancient, Mongolian; Middle Mongolian; and New, or Modern, Mongolian.
Mongolian is an Altaic language spoken by approximately 5 million people in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia. There are a number of closely related varieties of Mongolian: Khalkha or Halha, the national language of Mongolia, and Oirat, Chahar and Ordos, which are spoken mainly in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China.
There are two Mongolic languages spoken in Mongolia, Oirat and Buryat. The Oirat language is spoken the most in western Mongolia. Oirat is becoming an endangered language in Mongolia.
The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia.
Mongols can look quite diverse with some looking northern Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, to a few looking Russian and Persian. Some Mongolians have 5-10% European/Finnic DNA which can be noticeable in people.
2 maj 2017 · Here are six charts that capture just a fraction of that complexity. Going, going, gone. “Languages are vehicles of our cultures, collective memory and values,” UNESCO wrote in its Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. And yet this important cultural heritage is at risk.
