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Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken (but not always written) by nearly 3.6 million people (2014 estimate), [16] and the official provincial language (both spoken and written forms) of Inner Mongolia, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [17]
*kʰ was spirantized to /x/ in Ulaanbaatar Khalkha and the Mongolian dialects south of it, e.g. Preclassical Mongolian kündü, reconstructed as *kʰynty 'heavy', became Modern Mongolian /xunt/ [13] (but in the vicinity of Bayankhongor and Baruun-Urt, many speakers will say [kʰunt]). [14]
For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [4] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.
Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken by nearly 2.8 million people (2010 estimate), [83] and the official provincial language of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [84]
The script remained in continuous use by Mongolian speakers in Inner Mongolia in the People's Republic of China. In the Mongolian People's Republic, it was largely replaced by the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet, although the vertical script remained in limited use. In March 2020, the Mongolian government announced plans to increase the use of the ...
"For me, I offer this to our god and pray, without losing our culture," said Gavaadandov, who belongs to Mongolia's tiny Catholic minority, which the Church says numbers about 1,450.
A large Mongolian component took [citation needed] in the ethnic formation of the Hazaras. [7] The high frequency [citation needed] of haplogroup C2-M217 is consistent [citation needed] with the purported Mongolian origin of many of the Hazaras. [8] Modern Hazaras speak Hazaragi, one of the dialects of the Dari/Persian language.
In China, while Oirat is still quite widely used in its traditional ranges and there are many monolingual speakers, [16] a combination of government policies and social realities has created an environment deleterious to the use of this language: the Chinese authorities' adoption of Southern Mongolian as the normative Mongolian language, [17 ...