Buryat language

E300208

The Buryat language is a Mongolic language spoken primarily by the Buryat people in Siberia, especially around Lake Baikal in Russia, with smaller communities in Mongolia and China.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Buryat language canonical 6
Buriat language 1
Standard Buryat 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mongolic language
agglutinative language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Kalmyk language
Mongolian language
linked to: Mongolian (court)
coOfficialWith Russian language
country China
Mongolia
Russia
ethnicTerritory Buryatia
Irkutsk Oblast
Zabaykalsky Krai
family Mongolic languages
hasAutonym буряад хэлэн
hasCaseSystem multiple grammatical cases
hasDialect Alar-Tunka dialect
Bargut dialect
China Buriat
Ekhirit-Bulagat dialect
Khori dialect
Mongolia Buriat
Russia Buriat
hasGlottocode buri1258
hasStandardForm Standard Buryat
linked to: Buryat language
historicalWritingSystem Latin script
Mongolian script
ISO639-1Code bxr
ISO639-2Code bua
languageBranch Central Mongolic
languageContactWith Evenki language
Mongolian language
Russian language
morphologicalType suffixing
officialStatusIn Republic of Buryatia
region Lake Baikal region
linked to: Baikal region

Siberia
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenBy Buryat people
linked to: Buryats
standardBasedOn Khori dialect
subfamily Northern Mongolic
linked to: Mongolic languages
typologicalFeature SOV word order
vowel harmony
usedIn Buryat literature
education in Buryatia
local media in Buryatia
writingReform Cyrillic adoption in 1930s–1940s
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mongolic languages hasPart Buryat language
Nicholas Poppe studied Buriat language
linked to: Buryat language
Buryats language Buryat language
Buryats primaryLanguage Buryat language
Proto-Mongolic language hasDescendant Buryat language
Buryat language hasStandardForm Standard Buryat
linked to: Buryat language
Oirat language closelyRelatedTo Buryat language
Daur language relatedTo Buryat language