2. LANGUAGES IN MONGOLIA
• Mongolian(Official)
• spoken by 95% of the population
• 2 major dialects(Oirat, Buryat)
• Kazakh
• spoken by 4% of the population
• Tuvan
• Turkic
3. SCRIPTS IN MONGOLIA
• Mongolian Cyrillic(Official)
• a modified Cyrillic script
• has 35 letters
• Uyghurjin(Official)
• written vertically
• has 26 major letters
• has 9 minor letters(used for loanwords)
• used for legal documents and calligraphy
• Uyghurjin script is a compulsory subject
5. SOME FACTS
• Native speakers
• about 5.7 million
• Region
• All of Mongolia(≈50%)
• Inner Mongolia; parts of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces in China
• Republic of Buryatia and Republic of Kalmykia of Russia
• Others
6. English consonants
PHONOLOGY
• Vowels
• 7 major and 6 minor vowels
• Consonants
Mongolian consonants
• 20 consonants
• Yers
• hard sign
• soft sign
7. SYNTAX
• Phrase structure
• noun phrase
• demonstrative pronoun/numeral + adjective + noun
• verbal phrase
• predicate + complements + modal particles
• Complex sentences
• very similar to Japanese