Mongolian language

Mongolian
Монгол хэл Mongol khel ᠮᠣᠨᠭᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ Mongɣol kele
Pronunciation	/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Native to	Mongolia, China
Region	All of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia; parts of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Gansu provinces in China
Native speakers	5.2 million (2005)
Language family	Mongolic Mongolian
Early forms	Middle Mongolian Classical Mongolian Mongolian
Standard forms	Khalkha (Mongolia) Chakhar (China)
Dialects	Khalkha Chakhar Khorchin Kharchin Baarin Shilin gol Ordos Mongolian Darkhad
Writing system	Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script (in Inner Mongolia), Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet (in Mongolia), Mongolian Braille
Official status
Official language in	Mongolia  China Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Regulated by	Mongolia: State Language Council, China: Council for Language and Literature Work
Language codes
ISO 639-1	mn
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	– inclusive code Individual codes: khk – Khalkha Mongolian mvf – Peripheral Mongolian (part)
Glottolog	mong1331
Linguasphere	part of 44-BAA-b
Geographic distribution of Mongolic peoples across Asia (red)
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 Mongolia
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The Mongolian language (in Mongolian script: ,Mongɣol kele; in Mongolian Cyrillic: Монгол хэл, Mongol khel) is the official language of Mongolia and largest-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 10 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect, written in Cyrillic (and at times in Latin for social networking), is predominant, while in Inner Mongolia, the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script. In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian treated is Standard Khalkha Mongolian (i.e., the standard written language as formalized in the writing conventions and in the school grammar), but much of what is to be said is also valid for vernacular (spoken) Khalkha and for other Mongolian dialects, especially Chakhar.