mongolian men

Mostly Mongolian Women

This link has loads of photos of Mongolian women, followed by a variety of men, women and children from seemingly all over Central Asia. As someone rather helpfully comments:

A lot of the people that are posted here have phenotypic overlaps with Turkic people (especially Kazakhs, with some overlapping with Yakuts, and less so with Uzbeks). However, I must say that there are also a large number of Mongolians with phenotypic overlaps with Tungusic people and Koreans. It shouldn't be surprising at all considering the old historical geographic position that the Mongols occupied.

http://www.chinahistoryforum.org/lofiversion/index.php/t28127.html

There are naturally many photos on Flickr of Mongolian people of all shapes and sizes!

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongol
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongols
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolians
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolian+man
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolian+men
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolian+woman
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolian+women
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolian+child
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mongolian+children

All yield different results.

Here's an outstanding photo of a Mongolian woman waiting for a ride in the middle of nowhere:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vueltaa/1633479462

Communicating with Mongols

The official language of Mongolia is Khalkha Mongolian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and is spoken by 90% of the population. A variety of different dialects are spoken across the country. In the west the Kazakh and Tuvan languages, among others, are also spoken. The Russian language is the most frequently spoken foreign language in Mongolia, followed by English, though English has been gradually replacing Russian as the second language.

Korean has gained a popularity as tens of thousands of Mongolians work in South Korea. Interest in Chinese, as the language of the second neighbouring power, has been growing. Japanese is also popular among the younger people. A number of older educated Mongolians speak some German, as they studied in the former East Germany, while a few speak other languages from the former Eastern Bloc. Besides that, many younger Mongolians are fluent in the Western European languages as they study or work in foreign countries including Germany, France and Italy.

Mongolian is one of the Mongolic languages. Mongolic is frequently included in the Altaic languages, a group of languages named after the Altay Mountains that also includes the Turkic and Tungusic languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia#Demographics

Find resources for learning the Mongolian language for free here: http://alifeoftravel.org/node/7