| Buryat буряад хэлэн |
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| Spoken in: | Buryat Republic, northern Mongolia, northwestern the People's Republic of China, Ust-Orda Buryatia, Aga Buryatia | |
| Total speakers: | 400,000 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] (controversial) Mongolic Northern Buryat |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bua | |
| ISO 639-3: | variously: bua — Buryat (generic) bxu — China Buriat bxm — Mongolia Buriat bxr — Russia Buriat |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Buryat language (or Buriat) is a Mongolic language spoken by the Buryats. They mostly populate Siberia. The majority of speakers populate the bordering area of Russia with China and Mongolia, and others live in those countries. In ISO 639-3 it is considered a macrolanguage. The individual languages within this macrolanguage are:
- Chinese Buryat (65,000 speakers by Ethnologue [2]).
- Mongolian Buryat (64,900 [3]).
- Russian Buryat (318,000 [4]).
Buryat kheleng is official language in the Buryat Republic of Russia.
Orthography
| 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 |
References
External links
Russian Buryat edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
