Buryat

Details

Instance of

natural language, macrolanguage, modern language

Subclass of

Mongolic

Has parts

Russia Buriat, Mongolia Buriat, Bargu-Shineken Buriyad

Country

Russia, Mongolia, People's Republic of China

Said to be the same as

Mongolian

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

indigenous to

Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Inner Mongolia

linguistic typology

subject–object–verb, agglutinative language

native label

буряад хэлэн, ᠪᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠳ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠯᠡᠨ

number of speakers, writers, or signers

329000

topic's main category

Category:Buryat language

UNESCO language status

3 definitely endangered

Wikimedia language code

bxr

writing system

Cyrillic script, Mongolian, Vagindra, Latin script

Connected on Wikidata

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