Muurand togloom, hulgand ukhel.

{What is a joke for a cat will b e death for a mouse}
(Mongolian proverb)

Introduction

Tutorial A

Tutorial B

Also see

• "Golden Key to Mongolian" 2005 Language Course CD + Book
• Mongolian Grammar Book

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Welcome to this introduction to Mongolian language. For an overview of the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet please see the Language Tutorial. Here you will also find a good tutorial that may be additional to the one presented below. Furthermore I can suggest Lonely planet's language kit or, if you are more serious, Routledge Colloquial Mongolian, although not really suitable for fast learning. These days there are many self learning books for sale in bookshops in Ulaanbaatar, of mediocre to good quality. An extensive guide on grammar is simply called Mongolian Grammar and written by Rita Kullmann with D. Tserenpil, and is available online. Also see the new Lingua Mongolia site. For more info please see the Open Directory Project.
To be able to read the Mongolian Cyrillic script you will have to download the Mongolian font

History

Modern Mongolian as we know it was officially established in 1924 on basis of the Khalkha dialect, when it became the National language. The traditional script of Mongolian, also revered to as Uighur script, oritinate of Sogdian letters of Aramaic origin.

"The Uighur script is cursive, therefore it is possible that each letter has as many as 3 different shapes depending on whether the letter appears in an initial, medial, or final position." More on the traditional script

In 1940 a special version of the Cyrillic script developed, and later introduced in Mongolia together with a complete spelling revision. The newly developed script introduced a few new letters to the original Cyrillic. After the political developments in 1990 it was expected that the democratic revolution would trigger the revival of the old script, but apart from some offical uses and the education system it plays no significant role. However in Inner Mongolia, China, it is still the offical script. In the country Mongolia, there is again a reform planned including the possible ommiting of a few letters to better adapt to the Latin script that dominates modern technology and international communication.

Topics:

• The word "surprise" in Mongolian
• New site: Lingua Mongolia - Classical Mongolian Grammar and Tutorials

Lists of words:

• Wordlist Dutch-English-Mongolian
• Wordlist English-Dutch-Mongolian

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Common words and sentences

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Sentences

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Proverbs

Conversation

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== Many thanks to ==
Hishgue, Guree, Chimeg, Small Baagii, Ugana, Sutharsan John Isles.