Buryat language
variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian
The Buryat language is a minority language in Russia, Mongolia, and China.
Buryat | |
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Buriat | |
буряад хэлэн buryaad xelen ᠪᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠳ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ | |
Native to | Eastern Russia (Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia, Aga Buryatia), northern Mongolia, Northeast China (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia) |
Ethnicity | Buryats, Barga Mongols |
Native speakers | (265,000 in Russia and Mongolia (2010 census); 65,000 in China cited 1982 census)[1] |
Mongolic
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Cyrillic, Mongolian script, Vagindra script, Latin | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Buryatia (Russia) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | bua Buriat |
ISO 639-3 | bua – inclusive code BuriatIndividual codes: bxu – Inner Mongolian (China) Buriatbxm – Mongolia Buriatbxr – Russia Buriat |
Glottolog | buri1258 |
ELP | |
References
change- ↑ Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
Inner Mongolian (China) Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
Mongolia Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
Russia Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)