The Mongolic languages are a group of languages spoken in East-Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas plus in Kalmykia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, China with an estimated 5.2 million speakers. Some linguists have grouped Mongolic with Turkic, Tungusic, and possibly Koreanic and Japonic, as part of a larger Altaic family.
