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The '''Mongolian language''', a member of the [[Altaic languages|Altaic]] family, is the official language of [[Mongolia]]. It is also spoken by [[Mongol]]s in [[Russia]], [[China]], and by Mongol populations worldwide.
The '''Mongolian language''' (Монгол хэл, ''Mongol khel''), a member of the [[Altaic languages|Altaic]] family, is the official language of [[Mongolia]]. It is also spoken by [[Mongol]]s in [[Russia]], [[China]], and by Mongol populations worldwide.
==Dialects==
The main [[dialect]] of Mongolian is the [[Khalkha]] (Халх, ''Khalkh'') dialect, which is used as the standard dialect in Mongolia. There are other dialects, such as [[Kalmyk]] (Хальмг келн, ''Khal'mg keln''), spoken in the European Russian republic of [[Kalmykia]], and [[Buryat]] (буряад хэлэн, ''Buryat kheleng''), spoken in the Russian [[Siberia|Siberian]] republic of [[Buryatia]].
==Writing Systems==
Since the 1940s, Mongolian has been written in the [[Cyrillic]] alphabet. Before that, it was written in the traditional Mongolian alphabet, which is now making a resurgence. The traditional script is still used in [[Inner Mongolia]], a part of China. The traditional script is written vertically, from left to right. It was descended from the old [[Uighur]] script.
==External Links==
*[http://omniglot.com/writing/mongolian.htm|Omniglot Page on Mongolian]
[[Category: Altaic languages]]
[[Category: Altaic languages]]
[[Category: Mongolia]]