

The multilingual situation in Inner Mongolia does not appear to obstruct efforts by ethnic Mongols to preserve their language. However, in spite of the decline of the Mongolian language in some of Inner Mongolia's urban areas and educational spheres, the ethnic identity of the urbanized Chinese-speaking Mongols is most likely going to survive due to the presence of urban ethnic communities. The language experienced a decline during the late Qing period, a revival between 19, a second decline between 19, a second revival between 19, and a third decline between 19. The use of Mongolian in Inner Mongolia, has witnessed periods of decline and revival over the last few hundred years. Across the whole of China, the language is spoken by roughly half of the country's 5.8 million ethnic Mongols (2005 estimate) However, the exact number of Mongolian speakers in China is unknown, as there is no data available on the language proficiency of that country's citizens.

Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken (but not always written) by nearly 3.6 million people (2014 estimate), and the official provincial language (both spoken and written forms) of Inner Mongolia, China, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols.

In the transition, a major shift in the vowel-harmony paradigm occurred, long vowels developed, the case system changed slightly, and the verbal system was restructured. Modern Mongolian evolved from Middle Mongol, the language spoken in the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries. In sentence linking, a special role is played by converbs. Verbs are marked for voice, aspect, tense and epistemic modality/ evidentiality. While there is a basic word order, subject–object–predicate, ordering among noun phrases is relatively free, as grammatical roles are indicated by a system of about eight grammatical cases. It is a typical agglutinative language that relies on suffix chains in the verbal and nominal domains. Mongolian is a language with vowel harmony and a complex syllabic structure compared to other Mongolic languages, this syllablic structure allows clusters of up to three consonants syllable-finally. Some classify several other Mongolic languages like Buryat and Oirat as dialects of Mongolian, but this classification is not in line with the current international standard. the standard written language as formalized in the writing conventions and in grammar as taught in schools), but much of what is to be said is also valid for vernacular (spoken) Khalkha and for other Mongolian dialects, especially Chakhar. In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian treated is Standard Khalkha Mongolian (i.e. In Inner Mongolia, the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian script (and at times in Latin for social networking). The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and most-known member of the Mongolic language family. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of text in Mongolian script. ‹ The template Contains special characters is being considered for merging. ›
