Buryat language
| Buryat | |
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| буряад хэлэн buriaad xelen | |
| Native to | Russia (Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia, Aga Buryatia), northern Mongolia, China (Hulunbuir) |
| Ethnicity | Buryats, Barga Mongols |
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Native speakers
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(265,000 in Russia and Mongolia (2010 census); 65,000 in China cited 1982 census) |
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Mongolic
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| Cyrillic, Mongolian script, Vagindra script, Latin | |
| Official status | |
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Official language in
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Buryatia (Russia) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Individual codes: bxu – Chinese Buryat bxm – Mongolian Buryat bxr – Russian Buryat |
| Glottolog | buri1258 |
| Linguasphere | part of 44-BAA-b |
Buryat (Buriat) /ˈbʊriæt/ (Buryat Cyrillic: буряад хэлэн, buryād xelen) is a variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and Aga Buryatia. In the Russian census of 2002, 353,113 people out of an ethnic population of 445,175 reported speaking Buryat (72.3%). Some other 15,694 can also speak Buryat, mostly ethnic Russians. There are at least 100,000 ethnic Buryats in Mongolia and the People's Republic of China as well. Buryats in Russia have a separate literary standard, written in a Cyrillic alphabet. It is based on the Russian alphabet with three additional letters: Ү/ү, Ө/ө and Һ/һ.
The delimitation of Buryat mostly concerns its relationship to its immediate neighbors, Mongolian proper and Khamnigan. While Khamnigan is sometimes regarded as a dialect of Buryat, this is not supported by isoglosses. The same holds for Tsongol and Sartul dialects, which rather group with Khalkha Mongolian to which they historically belong. Buryat dialects are:
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