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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

mn

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

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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

Mongolia

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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