
Mongolian is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. It is mother tongue to about 5.7 million people, including 2.5 million residents of Mongolia, where it is the main and official language. It is also widely spoken by at least 2.7 million residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China, where it also enjoys status as an official language. Speakers of the Kharchin and Khorchin dialects also inhabit the nearby Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces. The primary diale...
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