Mongolian

Also known as Mongolian language, Mongol, Khalka

official language of Mongolia

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Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia, spoken by millions of people primarily in that Central Asian country. It matters as the primary means of communication for Mongolian society and an important part of the nation's cultural and political identity.

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ABVD: Mongol 蒙古语

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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Commons category: Mongolian language
Wikimedia language code: mn
native label: ꡏꡡꡃ ꡢꡡꡙ ꡁꡦ ꡙꡦ
exact match: afbo.info/languages/120
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 7000000
entry in abbreviations table: монг.
Stack Exchange tag: linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/mongolian
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=943

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Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East, Central and North Asia. 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. In Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolian is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian script. In Inner Mongolia, it is dialectally more diverse and written in the traditional Mongolian script. However, Mongols in both countries often use the Latin script for convenience on the Internet.