Home to 3 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 3 language families.
also: Standard Mongolian, Khalkh
The Khalkha-based standard of Mongolia. The official language of the country and the largest Mongolic variety; written in Cyrillic since the mid-20th century, with a planned return to traditional Mongolian script.
also: Buryat-Mongolian, Buryad
A northern Mongolic language spoken across the Buryat Republic in Russia, northern Mongolia, and parts of north-eastern China. Traditional Buddhist literary language of the Trans-Baikal region.
also: Western Mongolian, Dörbed
A western Mongolic language spoken across western Mongolia (Khovd, Bayan-Ölgii) and parts of Xinjiang in China. Sister to Kalmyk, with a separate writing tradition based on the Clear Script (Todo Bichig).