About Mongolian

Mongolian, known as Khalkha Mongolian, is primarily spoken in Mongolia and the Inner Mongolia region of China. It boasts a rich history tracing back to the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan. Modern Mongolian is written in the Cyrillic script, a change implemented during the Soviet era in the 1940s, although efforts to revive the traditional Mongolian script, with its vertical orientation, have been ongoing.

Mongolian is spoken by around 5.2 million people. It is an Altaic language, bearing similarities to languages like Turkish and Korean. An interesting fact about Mongolian is that its traditional script is one of the few in the world that is written vertically from top to bottom and left to right on the page.