Mongolic family
Khalkha Mongolian
c. 1600 CE – today Living
Khalkha Mongolian (c. 1600 CE – today) is a living Mongolic language. Lineage: Proto-Mongolic → Middle Mongol → Khalkha Mongolian.
See Khalkha Mongolian on the interactive map- Speakers
- 3M (3,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- khk
- Glottocode
- halh1238
Central Mongolic language and the basis of standard Mongolian in Mongolia, written in Cyrillic since the 1940s.
Lineage
- Proto-Mongolicc. 1000 CE – 1200 CE
- Middle Mongol1200 CE – 1600 CE
- Khalkha Mongolianc. 1600 CE – today
Sister languages 2
Also descended from Middle Mongol.