Mongolian is the official language that belongs to the Ural Altaic language family, spoken by 94 % of the population.
The Kazakhs (comprise 6% of the population) in western Mongolia speak the Kazakh language belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altaic language family.
The reindeer herders of the Dukha tribe in northern Mongolia communicate in the Dukhan language, an endangered Turkic variety.
Mongolian language dialect differs depending on the region and ethnic groups. Khalkha Mongols comprise 80% of the population speak the Khalkha dialect.
Mongolia Language Structure
The Altaic language family Mongolian language sentences are structured as follows.
Subject + object + predicate (verb) For example: I basketball play (I play basketball)
Subject – Time – Object- Predicate (verb) For example: I morning 6 o’clock get up (I get up 6 o'clock in the morning)
What Foreign Language Is Spoken In Mongolia?
The youths and younger generations speak English. People over 40 years old speak Russian at some level.
Korean is the third commonly spoken foreign language in Mongolia due to the Mongolian people employment in South Korea.