Oirat language

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Oirat language is a Mongolic language spoken primarily by the Oirat people in western Mongolia, China, and Russia, known for its historical use of the Clear Script.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Oirat language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mongolic language
natural language
subject of linguistic study
alsoKnownAs Kalmyk-Oirat
linked to: Kalmyk

Oirat Mongolian
linked to: Oirat Mongols

Western Mongolian
associatedWithScriptReform Clear Script
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Buryat language
Khalkha Mongolian
linked to: Khalkha Mongols
hasCaseSystem true
hasDialect Dörbet dialect
Kalmyk dialect
linked to: Kalmyk language

Khoshut dialect
Torgut dialect
Ööld dialect
hasHistoricalPeriod Early modern period
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
hasWritingSystem Clear Script
Cyrillic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Mongolian script
historicallyUsedScript Clear Script
ISO639-3Code xwo
languageFamily Mongolic languages
primaryRegion Central Asia
East Asia
spokenBy Oirat people
spokenIn China
Gansu
linked to: Gansu Province

Inner Mongolia
Kalmykia
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
Qinghai
Russia
Western Mongolia
linked to: western Mongolia

Xinjiang
subclassOf Central Mongolic language
usedByEthnicGroup Dörbet Oirats
Kalmyks
linked to: Kalmyk

Khoshuts
Torguts
Öölds
usedInAdministration Dzungar Khanate
usedInReligion Tibetan Buddhism
usesPostpositions true
writingSystemDevelopedBy Zaya Pandita

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 Oirat language
Mongolic languages languageFamilyOf Oirat language
Proto-Mongolic language hasDescendant Oirat language
Oirat confederation language Oirat language
Oirat Mongols language Oirat language
Kalmückisches Wörterbuch subject Oirat language
Dzungar people language Oirat language