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Buryat

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Also known as Buriat, Buryat language

variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian

AI overview

Buryat is a form of speech used by the Buryat people that belongs to the Mongolic language family, though experts disagree about whether it should be classified as its own distinct language or as a major dialect of Mongolian. It matters because it represents an important part of Buryat cultural and ethnic identity in regions where these people live.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Mongolic
Country
China
Said to be same as
Mongolian
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writing system
Mongolian
number of speakers, writers, or signers
329000
linguistic typology
agglutinative language
native label
ᠪᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠳ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠯᠡᠨ
topic's main category
Category:Buryat language
Wikimedia language code
bxr
Commons category
Buryat language
P10369
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indigenous to
Inner Mongolia
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Encyclopedic overview

Examples of Buryat usage in Aginskoie public space Buryat or Buriat, known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian, is a variety of the Mongolic languages spoken by the Buryats and Bargas that is classified either as a language or major dialect group of Mongolian.

Geographic distribution

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buryat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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