Language code: mn
Technical information about ISO 639 language code mn
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The table below provides technical details for the Mongolian language, designated by the mn code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Mongolian Native Монгол хэл |
| Family | Mongolic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | KhalkhaChakharKhorchinOrdos |
| Related languages | OiratBuryatKalmykDaurDongxiang |
| Key facts | Written both in Cyrillic and in the traditional vertical Mongolian scriptTraditional script is the only major writing system in the world written top-to-bottom with columns ordered left-to-rightExhibits vowel harmony that divides vowels into front, back and neutral setsMorphology is highly agglutinative, marking about eight grammatical cases mainly through suffixesClassical literary Mongolian has remained sufficiently stable that texts from the 13th century can still be read by modern users. |
| Sample phrase | Сайн байна уу? |
| Character encodings | |
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Mongolian belongs to the Mongolic language family. It is an official language of Mongolia and is also spoken in parts of China, particularly in Inner Mongolia. Mongolian is written using both the Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian scripts. It is estimated that there are more than 6 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
Speakers
6.2M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Mongolian speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
mn-MN – Mongolian (Mongolia)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ