Eastern Buryat
Facts
- Language: Eastern Buryat
- Alternate names: Mongolian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen, буряад хэлэн, буриад аялгуу, бурятский язык, Northern Mongolian, Buriat, Buryat, Buriat-Mongolian, Mongolia Buriat, Bur:aad, Burjatisch
- Language code: bxm
- Language family: Altaic, Mongolic, Eastern, Oirat-Khalkha, Khalkha-Buriat, Buriat (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: >300,000
- Vulnerability: Vulnerable
- Script: Cyrillic script. Latin script, used in 1930s. Mongolian script, used until 1917.
More information:
Some books in Buriat. Not a literary language in Mongolia. Traditional religion, Buddhist (Lamaist).
Eastern Buryat is spoken in Russia, China, Mongolia, Caucasus;Europe;East Asia.