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Kalmyk

register of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia
Class type of: Oirat Q33634

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
language
Country
Russia[3]
Subclass of
Oirat
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[9][10][11][12]
Different from
Oirat, Written Oirat[17][18]
Ethnologue language status
2 Provincial[23]
Indigenous to
Astrakhan Oblast, Kalmykia, Stavropol Krai[20][21][22]
Linguistic typology
subject–object–verb, agglutinative language[24][25]
Native label
Хальмг келн, ᡍᠠᠯᡅᡏᠠᡎ ᡘᡄᠯᡄᠨ, хальмг, хальмг келн‎[13][14][15][16]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+360800, +431800[7][8]
UNESCO language status
3 definitely endangered[19]
Writing system
Cyrillic script, Latin script, Clear Script[4][5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kalmyk language en Kalmyk Oirat language en Kalmyk Oirat en Kalmyk of the Volga en Kalmik Elut en Modern Kalmyk en Kalmik en European Kalmyk en xal en Western Mongolian en Kalmuk en Kalmyk ar اللغة القلميقية ar لغة الكالميك cs kalmyčtina de xal de kalmykische Sprache de Kalmückisch de kalmückische Sprache el Καλμύκ Οϊράτ
🔖 Identifiers · 30
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85071365
GND ID
4096918-6
BabelNet ID
14957547n
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Kalmyk-language, topic/Western-Mongolian-languages
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
3260
Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens ID
176a
Ethnologue.com language code
xal
Freebase ID
/m/02mj1c
GOST 7.75–97 code
кал 260
Glottolog code
kalm1244
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
calmuc
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0165897, 0165896
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Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2036647, 5229724
IETF language tag
xal
ISO 639-2 code
xal
ISO 639-3 code
xal
ISOCAT ID
992
Linguist List code
xal-kal
Literary Encyclopedia ID
5-0681
LyricsTranslate ID
language/kalmyk
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007538686205171
National Library of Latvia ID
000304905
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
547809
POSIX locale identifier
xal
Topic's main category
Category:Kalmyk language
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
368
WALS lect code
kmk
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Language", "Kalmyk::bgzd5"]
YSO ID
26312
Yale LUX ID
concept/ccd8aadd-5f14-4a69-9dd4-12bf6d111991

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🔗 Connections
← Languages spoken, written or signed 8
Stepan Razin, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Isaac Jacob Schmidt, David Nikitich Kugultinov, Dinara Wagner, Aleksandra Buratayeva, Harti Kanukov, Oleg Bartunov
← Category combines topics 5
Category:Kalmyk nouns, Category:Kalmyk lemmas, Category:Kalmyk adjectives, Category:xal:Countries, Category:Kalmyk verbs
← Language used 5
Russia, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast, Stavropol Krai, Kalmyk Khanate
← Native language 4
Don Cossacks, Ongud, Dinara Wagner, Aleksandra Buratayeva
← Official language 4
Russia, Kalmykia, Utta, Yergeninsky
Indigenous to 3
Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast, Stavropol Krai
Writing system 3
Cyrillic script, Latin script, Clear Script
Linguistic typology 2
agglutinative language, subject–object–verb
← Language of work or name 2
Ruwiki, jw.org
Country 1
Russia
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Different from 1
Oirat
Instance of 1
language
Subclass of 1
Oirat
Topic's main category 1
Category:Kalmyk language
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Kalmyk language
← Different from 1
Oirat
← Has use 1
Clear Script
← Writing language 1
David Nikitich Kugultinov
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Summary

Kalmyk is a language[1]. Kalmyk is a type of Oirat[2].

Related Entities

Don Cossacks Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Oleg Bartunov Russia Stepan Razin

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 21d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    ISOCAT ID → 992
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ ISOCAT ID: 992, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326923|Kalmyk (#7326923)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue.com language code → xal
    Different from → Oirat, Written Oirat
    Country → —
    UNESCO language status → 3 definitely endangered
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ YSO ID: 26312, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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