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Preferred term

xalOirat  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Kalmyk language (Хальмг келн; also known as Kalmuck, Qalmaq, Khal:mag and Western Mongol), or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language (based on the Torgut dialect), which belongs to the Mongolic language family. The Oirat people are scattered throughout Eurasia, with substantial groups located in western Mongolia, the northwest region (mainly Xinjiang) of the People’s Republic of China and the northwest coast of the Caspian Sea in the Russian Federation, where they became known as Kalmyks.

Entry terms

  • Kalmyk
  • Kalmyk Oirat

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • xal

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • xal

ISO 639-3 code

  • xal

Notation

  • xal

In other languages

  • Kalmouk

    French

  • kalmouk
  • Kalmückisch

    German

  • Kalmückische Sprache
  • kalmyk

    Italian

  • Lingua calmucca
  • kalmyk

    Portuguese

  • Língua calmuca
  • kalmyk

    Spanish

  • Idioma calmuco

URI

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

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