ABSTRACT
By the late 1980s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mongolia peacefully transformed itself from a socialist to a democratic society. This was the beginning of a new social, political, cultural, and economic order for the newly democratic Mongolia. The sociolinguistic scene in post-socialist Mongolia has become one of the country’s most critical phenomena since its transformation into democracy. This chapter examines the current sociolinguistic scene in Mongolia, highlighting some of the internal and external sociolinguistic ideologies and practices which have emerged during its political, cultural, economic, and linguistic transition. The chapter points out the complex linguistic and communicative processes of English, and other additional foreign languages, which have started integrating into the Mongolian language in the post-socialist period.
