Oirat-Khalkha languages
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Oirat-Khalkha | |
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Geographic distribution: |
Central Asia |
Genetic classification: |
Altaic[1] (controversial) Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha |
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The Oirat-Khalkha languages are a group of languages spoken in Central Asia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian (in Cyrillic orthography as used in Mongolia, Монгол Хэл, and in the vertical Uygur-derived script as used in Inner Mongolia, China, Mongγol Kele), is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia, and is spoken by around 5.7 million people in Mongolia, Russia, and Inner Mongolia.