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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.
| Mongolian | |
|---|---|
| монгол хэл ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ | |
| Pronunciation | /mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xeɮ/ |
| Native to |  Mongolia China Russia |
| Region | All of state Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, parts of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang and Gansu provinces in China |
Native speakers | 5.2 million (2005) |
Mongolic
| |
Early forms | Middle Mongolian
|
Standard forms | Khalkha (Mongolia)
Chakhar (China)
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| Dialects |
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| Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script (in China), Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet (in Mongolia), Mongolian Braille | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Mongolia China
|
| Regulated by | Mongolia: State Language Council,[2] China: Council for Language and Literature Work[3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | mn |
| ISO 639-2 | mon |
| ISO 639-3 | mon – inclusive codeIndividual codes: khk – Khalkha Mongolianmvf – Peripheral Mongolian (part) |
| Glottolog | mong1331 |
| Linguasphere | part of 44-BAA-b |
Geographic distribution of Mongolic peoples across Asia (red) | |
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