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buaBuriat  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Buryat (or Buriat; Buryat Cyrillic: буряад хэлэн buryaad khelen) is a Mongolic variety spoken by the Buryats that is either classified 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 could speak 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. Buriats in Russia have a separate literary standard, written in a Cyrillic alphabet.

Entry terms

  • Buryat language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • bua

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • bua

ISO 639-3 code

  • bua

Notation

  • bua

In other languages

  • bouriate

    French

  • Bouriate
  • Burjatisch

    German

  • Burjatische Sprache
  • buriat

    Italian

  • Lingua buriata
  • Portuguese

  • buriat

    Spanish

  • Idioma buriato

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bua

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