What does Mongolian language sound like ?

I am curious about how my native language sounds to foreigners. I have no idea how mongolian sounds to other foreign people, because it is my native language. I heard some people say mongolian sounds like Arabic.

Your opinion?

the video above is a song, so might sound a bit weird, here's another video/news.

Sounds Turkish to me.

@ duchess, I'm gald you're going to travel to Mongolia, good choice 🙂

10 Facts People Should Know About Mongolia

http://itsgracejacobsen.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/10-facts-people-should-know-about-mongolia/comment-page-1/#comment-18

^^^ there's some very useful info about Mongolia for people who's going to travel to Mongolia. Western Mongolia? you should consider Khuvsgul, that's pretty nice and one of the most beautiful regions of Mongolia.

Posted by xvll27
lots influence from Russian language 🙂

In fact Russia and Mongolia share a 3,500-kilometer border ..
Both cultures have significant effects on each other civilization and share a history

on technical terms yes, there're some russian words.

Posted by Damnata
Sounds Turkish to me.

Turkish and Mongolian are both Altaic language, so yes. And even some words are similar.

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@ duchess, I'm gald you're going to travel to Mongolia, good choice 🙂

10 Facts People Should Know About Mongolia

http://itsgracejacobsen.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/10-facts-people-should-know-about-mongolia/comment-page-1/#comment-18

^^^ there's some very useful info about Mongolia for people who's going to travel to Mongolia. Western Mongolia? you should consider Khuvsgul, that's pretty nice and one of the most beautiful regions of Mongolia.

Khuvsgul is one of the places I really want to visit! 🙂 It looks gorgeous.

Thanks so much for the link! Anywhere else you'd recommend?

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I wanna visit Gobi Desert, since I've never been there before. The rest of the others are kinda similar to Khuvsgul or kinda boring with only prairie.

Posted by DonJohnson

There're Russian words in Mongolian language which has become mongolianized (? I don't know a proper english word to describe it), as well as there're mongolian words in Russian language which has become russianized.

Also I heard Kremlin is derived from a mongolian word Kherem( which means wall/castle).

Posted by Damnata
Sounds Turkish to me.

Turkic maybe? Like Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

My uncle worked in Turkey for a couple of years.

He was home at some point and talking to a friend from there..it sounded exactly like that.

Even Kazakh names like Turganbay and Aidyn sound very Turkish.

Posted by geminicandIe
It sounds like a mixture of...Orient meets Slavic.

I can definitely hear some Slavic influence/words/accent/syntax but stress on the first syllable sounds Asian to me. If I had to guess I'd say Chinese or Japanese/Korean. Although, I can hear how it can sound like Middle-Eastern languages too (Arabic, Turkish and Persian).

I think it is accurate to say that it sounds like a language which would originate from southern Transcaucasian republics. All of these countries which end in -STAN.

What threw me off was seeing the Cyrillic alphabet in the first song and then seeing Asian looking people in the second video. I wish I did not see it, but that I listened only. Then my opinion would be unbiased and more objective.

But needless to say,it is a beautiful language and very, very interesting. Thanks for sharing this!

You're welcome Gemcandle.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan - yes, the central asian countries. Mongolia is culturally and linguistically Central Asian country.

I disagree that Mongolian sounds like chinese, japanese/korean. When I hear Chinese it sounds nothing like Mongolian. Japanese is a distinct language, Korean and Chinese sounds a bit similar to each other. Chinese has lot of nasal sounds, and they don't roll R's like mongolians, also mongolian has many throat sounds.

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@ duchess, I'm gald you're going to travel to Mongolia, good choice 🙂

10 Facts People Should Know About Mongolia

http://itsgracejacobsen.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/10-facts-people-should-know-about-mongolia/comment-page-1/#comment-18

^^^ there's some very useful info about Mongolia for people who's going to travel to Mongolia. Western Mongolia? you should consider Khuvsgul, that's pretty nice and one of the most beautiful regions of Mongolia.

Khuvsgul is one of the places I really want to visit! 🙂 It looks gorgeous.

Thanks so much for the link! Anywhere else you'd recommend?

I wanna visit Gobi Desert, since I've never been there before. The rest of the others are kinda similar to Khuvsgul or kinda boring with only prairie.

Nature is never boring!! 😄

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hmm yeah, but I would visit a place, where there are waterfall, river, lake, forest, or desert. Plains are boring imo.