The Mongolic languages are a group of languages that are spoken in Central Asia. Some linguists propose to put Mongolic languages in the same group as the Turkic and Tungusic languages. They call this group the Altaic languages, but not all linguists agreed upon this. The best-known member of this language family is Mongolian.

Other languages considered part of the Mongolian language family, but separate from Mongolian, include Buryat and Kalmyk, spoken in Russia and Moghul or Mogul, spoken in Afghanistan. As a result of pressure from the Soviet Union, Mongolia adopted the Latin alphabet in 1931 and the Cyrillic alphabet in 1937.

Mongol language, also called Mongolian language, principal member of the Mongolian language family within the Altaic language group, spoken by some seven million people in Mongolia and in the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang and the …

Mongolic languages are considered one of the three subfamilies of the Altaic family by many scholars with Tungusic and Turkic. However, the parallelisms between the three are too few, according to others, to support the unity of Altaic and, therefore, they may be independent families. Internal Classification.

This language family is traditionally divided into three main subgroups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic (Crystal, 309). Although there is doubt as to whether these subgroups are related genetically, many topological similarities exist, such as SOV order, agglutination, and vowel harmony (Dalby, 18).

Altaic languages, group of languages consisting of three language families— Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus—that show noteworthy similarities in vocabulary, morphological and syntactic structure, and certain phonological features.