Mongolian language

Mongolian belongs to it's own language family: Mongolic. This also includes a few other languages. Mongolian has just over 5 million speakers, mostly within Mongolia. Other Mongolic languages also use either the traditional Mongolian alphabet or another script other than Cyrillic. Traditional Mongolian script is unique, but most Mongolians use the Cyrillic alphabet as a result of close unity to the former Soviet Union, but was not a member of it.