Buryat language
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| Buryat буряад хэлэн |
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| Spoken in: | Buryat Republic, northern Mongolia, northwestern the People's Republic of China, Ust-Orda Buryatia, Aga Buryatia | |
| Total speakers: | 400,000 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] (controversial) Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Khalkha-Buriat Buryat |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bua | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: bua – Buryat (generic) bxu – China Buriat bxm – Mongolia Buriat bxr – Russia Buriat |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Buryat (or Buriat [ISO 639-3]) is, according to ISO 639-3, a Mongolic macrolanguage spoken by the Buryats. The majority live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia and speak Russia Buriat. There are also smaller, more distinct, communities in both Mongolia and the People's Republic of China that speak Mongolia Buriat and China Buriat, respectively. Russia Buriat, or Buryat kheleng, is an official language in the Buryat Republic of Russia. Of the three, only Russia Buriat has a written literature, written in a Cyrillic orthography. The most obvious differences between the three varieties are the donor languages of their borrowed vocabulary and the sociolinguistic contexts in which they are used.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Ethnologue.com: Altaic
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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