Mongolian language

Mongolian
Монгол (Mongol) (Mongɣol)
Spoken in	Mongolia, China, People's Republic of, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Region	All of Mongolia, Buryatia in Russia, Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, and Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces in China
Total speakers	5.7 million
Language family	— Mongolian
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–

The Mongolian language ( , Mongɣol kele, Cyrillic: Монгол хэл, Mongol khel) is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family and the language of most of the residents of Mongolia, where it is officially written with the Cyrillic alphabet and of around three million Mongolian speakers in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, where it is officially written with the traditional Mongolian script. It is also spoken in some areas in the Russian Far East and Kyrgyzstan. The majority of speakers in Mongolia speak the Khalkha (or Halh) dialect, while those in China speak one of many Inner Mongolian dialects.

References

• Janhunen, Juha (ed.) (2003): The Mongolic languages. London: Routledge.

Other websites

This language has its own Wikipedia Project.

See the Mongolian language edition

• Modern Mongolian language lessons "Khicheel"
• On-line Mongolian language lessons, Infomongolia.com
• Subscription audio vocabulary course to learn Mongolian
• Ethnologue report for Khalkha Mongolian
• Monumenta Altaica. Grammars, Texts, Dictionaries, Bibliographies of Mongolian and other Altaic languages
• Webster's Mongolian English Dictionary
• Ganhuyag's Mongolian English dictionary
• Mongolian English Russian German dictionary
• "Mongolian dictionary with etymologies" by Andras Rajki
• Lingua Mongolia Information on classical Mongolian, including an online dictionary
• Omniglot - Mongolian Alphabets
• GB18030 Support Package for Windows 2000/XP, including Chinese, Tibetan, Yi, classical Mongolian and Thai font by Microsoft
• Mongolian bilingual dictionaries
• Bolor - Mongolian English dictionary