Mongolian language

Mongolian is the principal language of Mongolia and the largest language in the Mongolic family. Mongolia mainly writes it in Cyrillic, while traditional Mongolian script remains in use.

Mongolic languages: A language family spoken across Mongolia, parts of China, and neighboring regions. Mongolian is the family's largest language and its best-known member.
Middle Mongolian: The historical stage of Mongolian documented chiefly from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Its texts preserve earlier forms of the language before modern standardization.
Mongolian language policy: The laws and public decisions governing language use, instruction, and scripts in Mongolia. Policy has shaped the language's official status and the balance between scripts.
Buryat language: A Mongolic language spoken mainly in and around Buryatia in Russia. Its close relationship to Mongolian makes shared features and regional differences visible.
Mongolian grammar: The rules governing word formation, sentence structure, and grammatical relations in Mongolian. Suffixes and subject–object–verb order shape Mongolian sentences.
Secret History of the Mongols: A thirteenth-century Mongolian chronicle recounting the life of Genghis Khan and the rise of the Mongol Empire. It is the oldest major surviving literary work in Mongolian.
Mongolian literature: Oral and written literary works composed in Mongolian across historical periods. Its genres and texts show the language's expressive range and changing written forms.
Kalmyk language: A Mongolic language spoken chiefly by the Kalmyk people in southwestern Russia. Its western distribution contrasts with Mongolian's center in Mongolia and adjacent regions.
Mongolian phonology: The sound system of Mongolian, including its vowel harmony and consonant contrasts. Vowel harmony governs which vowels can occur together in many Mongolian words.
Mongolian script: A vertical writing system adapted from the Old Uyghur script to write Mongolian. Its adoption established a written tradition centuries before Cyrillic became dominant.

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