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.