Mongolian language
The Mongolic languages, together with Turkic (of which Turkish is a member) and Tungusic, belong to the Altaic language family.
The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia. The majority of speakers speak the Khalkha dialect. It is also spoken in some of the surrounding areas in provinces of China and the Russian Federation. Mongolian has been written in a variety of alphabets over the years.
The official Mongolian alphabet was created in the 12th century, although it has undergone transformations and occasionally been supplanted by other scripts since then. The Mongolian alphabet had been used in Mongolia until 1943.
Related languages include Kalmyk spoken near the Caspian Sea and Buriat of East Siberia, as well as a number of minor languages in China and the Moghol of Afghanistan.
See also: Languages of China