Mongolian

Mongolian is the native language of the Mongols of Mongolia. It is also spoken by the ethnic Mongols within mainland China. In total, it has between 8.5-9 million speakers.

Mongolia is known for its great historic leader Genghis Khan. Laws from his reign are still in use today. Today, one in 200 men carry the Y chromosome of Genghis Khan, due to his large number of descendents throughout the Mongol Empire.

Writing: Mongolian is written in both the Cyrillic and Mongolian script. On the internet, it is generally written with the Latin alphabet, for ease.

Word Order: It has a basic subject-object-verb word order, though ordering is semi-fluid.

Vowels: Mongolian has vowel harmony, meaning that vowels in a certain word must share some characteristics (think of the apples and bananas song . . . I like to oot, oot, oot, ooples and banoonoos)