Buryat
variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian
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Summary
Buryat is a natural language[1]. Buryat draws 2,249 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #175 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3], Mongolia[4], People's Republic of China[5]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[6], modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Mongolic[8]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[9], Mongolian[10], Vagindra[11], Latin script[12]
- Commons category: Buryat language[13]
- Wikimedia language code: bxr[14]
- Said to be the same as: Mongolian[15]
- Has part(s): Russia Buriat[16], Mongolia Buriat[17], Bargu-Shineken Buriyad[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Buryat language[19]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 329,000[20]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21]
- Native label: буряад хэлэн[22], ᠪᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠳ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠯᠡᠨ[23]
- UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[24]
- Indigenous to: Buryatia[25], Zabaykalsky Krai[26], Irkutsk Oblast[27], Inner Mongolia[28]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BUA[29]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[30], agglutinative language[31]
- Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[32]
Why It Matters
Buryat has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Buryat is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]