China Buriat language
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China Buriat | ||
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Spoken in: | People's Republic of China | |
Region: | Inner Mongolia | |
Total speakers: | 65,000 | |
Language family: | Altaic[1] Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Khalkha-Buriat Buriat China Buriat |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | bxu | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
China Buriat (or China Buryat, Bargu Buriat) is a Mongolic language spoken in the People's Republic of China in the Hulun-Buyr District of Inner Mongolia. The speakers are officially included under the Mongolian nationality. [2]
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- ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.