Western Buryat

Facts

  • Language: Western Buryat
  • Alternate names: Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen, буриад аялгуу, Buryat, Northern Mongolian, Burjatisch, буряад хэлэн, buriaad xelen
  • Language code: bxr
  • Language family: Altaic, Mongolic, Eastern, Oirat-Khalkha, Khalkha-Buriat, Buriat (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: <50,000
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Cyrillic script.

More information:

    Heavily influenced by Russian (See: [[Russian]]). Buddhist (Lamaist), traditional religion.

    Western Buryat is spoken in Russia, Caucasus;Europe;East Asia.