13 Facts About Mongolian language

Mongolian language literature is well attested in written form from the 13th century but has earlier Mongolic precursors in the literature of the Khitan and other Xianbei peoples.

The Mongolian language experienced a decline during the late Qing period, a revival between 1947 and 1965, a second decline between 1966 and 1976, a second revival between 1977 and 1992, and a third decline between 1995 and 2012.

The delimitation of the Mongolian language within Mongolic is a much disputed theoretical problem, one whose resolution is impeded by the fact that existing data for the major varieties is not easily arrangeable according to a common set of linguistic criteria.

The influential classification of Sanzeev proposed a "Mongolian language" consisting of just the three dialects Khalkha, Chakhar, and Ordos, with Buryat and Oirat judged to be independent languages.

Additionally, the Language Policy in the People's Republic of China: Theory and Practice Since 1949, states that Mongolian can be classified into four dialects: the Khalkha dialect in the middle, the Horcin-Haracin dialect in the East, Oriat-Hilimag in the west, and Bargu-Buriyad in the north.

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Southern Mongolian language is said to consist of Chakhar, Ordos, Baarin, Khorchin, Kharchin, and Alasha.

However, some scholars still describe Mongolian language as being characterized by a distinction between front vowels and back vowels, and the front vowel spellings 'o' and 'u' are still often used in the West to indicate two vowels which were historically front.

Mongolian language has rounding harmony, which does not apply to close vowels.

Stress in Mongolian language is nonphonemic and thus is considered to depend entirely on syllable structure.

Roughly speaking, Mongolian language has eight cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, instrumental, comitative and directional.

Mongolian language has a complementizer auxiliary verb ge- very similar to Japanese to iu.

Traditional Mongolian script was first adopted by Temujin in 1204, who recognized the need to represent his own people's language.

In March 2020, the Mongolian language government announced plans to use both Cyrillic and the traditional Mongolian language script in official documents by 2025.