The Mongolic languages are a group of thirteen languages spoken in Central Asia. Some linguists propose the grouping of Mongolic with Turkic (of which Turkish is a member) and Tungusic as Altaic languages, but this hypothesis is not universally agreed upon. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Turkic languages are a group of related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus languages) are spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria. ... Altaic is a language family which includes 60 languages spoken by about 250 million people, mostly in and around Central Asia and Far East. ...

The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian (in Cyrillic orthography as used in Mongolia, Монгол Хэл, and in the vertical Uygur-derived script as used in Inner Mongolia, China, mongγol kele), is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia, and is spoken by around 2.5 million people in Mongolia, Russia, and Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠦᠷ ᠮᠣᠨᠺᠤᠯᠤᠨ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠺᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠣᠷᠤᠨ r Mongghul-un bertegen Jasaqu Orun; Chinese: 内蒙古自治区; Hanyu Pinyin: N i Měnggǔ Z qū) is an Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Mongolian Languages (13 languages)

• Central Mongolic
  • Halh Mongolian (Official language of Mongolia)
  • Oirat
  • Kalmyk
  • Darkhat
  • Ordos (native form: Urdus)
  • Khorchin
• Northern Mongolic
  • Buryat (Dialects: Bargu, Khori, Aga, Ekhirit, Unga, Ninzne-Udinsk, Barguzin, Tunda, Oka, Alar, Bohaan, Bulagat)
  • Khamnigan Mongol
• Northeastern Mongolic
  • Dagur (Daur)
• Southeastern Mongolic (i.e., the Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund Mongolic languages)
  • Monguor (Also known as Tu, Dialects: Mongghul, Mangghuer)
  • Kangjia
  • Bonan
  • Dongxiang
• South-Central Mongolic
  • East Yugur (or Shira Yugur)
• Southwestern Mongolic
  • Moghol (Mogholi, Mogol)

Mongolian (Монгол), is the best-known member of the Mongolian language family, and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia. ... The Kalmyk (Kalmuck) language of the Kalmyks is spoken mainly in Kalmykia in the Russian Federation. ... The Tu language (also known as Mongour, Monguor, and Mongor) is closely related to Mongolian. ... Kangjia is a recently-discovered Mongolic idiom spoken by a Muslim population of around 300 people in cGan. ... Dongxiang is a Mongolian Altaic language spoken by the Dongxiang people of northwestern China. ... Moghol is a Mongolian language spoken in Afghanistan by a few people around Herat. ...

External Links

Ethnologue report on Mongolian languages