Language System in Mongolia

by Dashzeveg Barbayar

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LANGUAGE SYSTEMIN MONGOLIA

LANGUAGES IN MONGOLIA• Mongolian(Official)

• spoken by 95% of the population

• 2 major dialects(Oirat, Buryat)

• Kazakh

• spoken by 4% of the population

• Tuvan

• Turkic

SCRIPTS IN MONGOLIA• Mongolian Cyrillic(Official)

• a modified Cyrillic script

• has 35 letters

• Uyghurjin(Official)

• written vertically

• has 26 major letters

• has 9 minor letters(used for loanwords)

• used for legal documents and calligraphy

• Uyghurjin script is a compulsory subject

MONGOLIAN CALLIGRAPHY

SOME FACTS• Native speakers

• about 5.7 million

• Region

• All of Mongolia(≈50%)

• Inner Mongolia; parts of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces in China

• Republic of Buryatia and Republic of Kalmykia of Russia

• Others

PHONOLOGY• Vowels

• 7 major and 6 minor vowels

• Consonants

• 20 consonants

• Yers

• hard sign

• soft sign

English consonants

Mongolian consonants

SYNTAX• Phrase structure

• noun phrase

• demonstrative pronoun/numeral + adjective + noun

• verbal phrase

• predicate + complements + modal particles

• Complex sentences

• very similar to Japanese

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