Russia Buriat language

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Russia Buriat
Spoken in:	Russia
Region:	east of Lake Baikal
Total speakers:	318,000
Language family:	Altaic^[1] Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Khalkha-Buriat Buriat Russia Buriat
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`–`
ISO 639-3:	`bxr`
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Russia Buriat (or Russia Buryat) is a Mongolic language spoken in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia. Dialects include Ekhirit, Unga, Ninzne-Udinsk, Barguzin, Tunka, Oka, Alar, Bohaan, Bulagat. It is heavily influenced by Russian. Russia Buriat is the official language of the Buryat Republic of Russia. The variety used in newspapers is that of the area around Irkutsk, west of Lake Baikal. The dialects east of Lake Baikal are less influenced by Russian and become more like Mongolia Buriat. Russia Buriat differs considerably from China Buriat and Mongolia Buriat. ^[2]

1 Orthography
2 Notes
3 References
4 Further reading
5 Links

[edit] Orthography

Russia Buriat is written using a version of the Cyrillic alphabet.

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж
З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м	Н н	О о
Ө ө	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у	Ү ү	Ф ф
Х х	Һ h	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы
Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

[edit] Notes

^ 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.

[edit] References

Ethnologue entry for Russia Buriat

[edit] Further reading

A.A. Darbeeva. 1997. "Burjatskij jazyk," Jazyki mira, Mongol'skie jazyki, Tunguso-Man'chzhurskie jazyki, Japonskij jazyk, Korejskij jazyk. Ed. V.M. Alpatov et al. Moscow: Indrik. Pages 37-51.
Juha Janhunen. 2003. "Buryat," The Mongolic Languages. London: Routledge. Pages 102-28.