Language/Halh-mongolian
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Facts about Halh Mongolian[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
khk
- Autonyms (how to write "Halh Mongolian" in Halh Mongolian):
Монгол Хэл
- Other names for "Halh Mongolian":
Central Mongolian, Halh, Halha, Kalkh, Khalkha, Khalkha Mongolian, Mongol, Mongolian
- The Halh Mongolian language is spoken in:
Mongolia
Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family.
The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian script, while in Inner Mongolia, the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script.
The Mongolian language is structured with words with suffixes and prefixes without modifying the radical and seems quite harmonious. The masculine and feminine words are characterized by the nature and the number of vowels used. Thus we find words which can contain only masculine vowels and vice versa. Although Mongolian has, like other Altaic languages, a harmony of vowels and variations: nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, instrumental, comitative ... However, with the borrowing of modern English words and slang words Mandarin Chinese, this rule cannot always be observed.
It is estimated to have around five million speakers, but the exact number is not known due to lack of census information and the fact that there are many ethnic tribes speaking hybrid versions of the Mongolian language. . In Mongolia itself, the Mongolian language is spoken by around 2.5 million people.
Sources[edit | edit source]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_language
- https://www.tradlibre.fr/histoire/histoire-de-la-langue-mongole
Mongolian Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Bolor: Mongolian-English Dictionary (+ audio)
• Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь: dictionary of the Mongolian language
• FunkyMongolian: thematic vocabulary Mongolian-English (+ audio)
• English-Mongolian phrasebook, Peace Corps (1992)
• LinguaMongolia: Mongolian-English dictionary, Mongolian alphabet & transliteration in Latin (font to download)
• Universität Wien: lexicographical resources of the Mongolian language
• Mongolian etymological dictionary by András Rajki (2009) (Latin alphabet)
• Mongolian-English Dictionary [PDF] by Mattai Haltod, John Gombojab Hangin, Serge Kassatkin, Ferdinand Lessing (1960)
• Dictionnaire mongol-russe-français: Mongolian-Russian-French dictionary by Joseph Kowalewski (1844) (Mongolian characters)
• Mongolisch-deutsch-russisches Wörterbuch: Mongolian-German-Russian dictionary by Isaak Jakob Schmidt (1835) (Mongolian characters)
Sources[edit | edit source]
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/mongolian_dictionary.htm
Free Halh Mongolian Lessons[edit | edit source]
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Last Lessons[edit | edit source]
Visual Arts — Traditional Music — Weather Vocabulary — Mongolian Etiquette — Traditional Holidays — Travel Phrases — Modes of Transportation — Conjunctions — Prepositions — Dining Phrases — Common Foods — Adverbs — Relationships — Family Members — Past Tense — Present Tense — Telling Time — Ordinal Numbers — Cardinal Numbers — Personal Pronouns — Noun Cases — Polite Expressions — Vowel Harmony — Cyrillic Script — Passive Verbs — Conditional Verbs — Present Tense Verbs — Cultural Diversity and Identity — Modern Music and Dance — Sports and Recreation