Mongolic languages

Mongolic
Ethnicity	Mongolic peoples
Geographic distribution	Mongolia, Inner Mongolia (China), Buryatia and Kalmykia (Russia), Herat Province (Afghanistan) and Issyk-Kul Region (Kyrgyzstan)
Linguistic classification	One of the world's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Mongolic
Subdivisions	Central Mongolic (including Mongolian) Southern Mongolic Dagur Moghol[note 1]
ISO 639-5	xgn
Glottolog	mong1329
Geographic distribution of the Mongolic languages

The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongol residents of Inner Mongolia, with an estimated 5.7+ million speakers.^[1]

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