Buryat language

Buryat
Buriat
буряад хэлэн buryaad xelen
ᠪᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠳ
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ
Native toEastern Russia (Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia, Aga Buryatia), northern Mongolia, Northeast China (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia)
EthnicityBuryats, Barga Mongols
Native speakers
(265,000 in Russia and Mongolia (2010 census); 65,000 in China cited 1982 census)[1]
Mongolic
  • Central Mongolic
    • Buryat
Cyrillic, Mongolian script, Vagindra script, Latin
Official status
Official language in
Buryatia (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2bua Buriat
ISO 639-3bua – inclusive code Buriat
Individual codes:
bxu – Inner Mongolian (China) Buriat
bxm – Mongolia Buriat
bxr – Russia Buriat
Glottologburi1258
ELP

The Buryat language is a minority language in Russia, Mongolia, and China.

References

  1. ↑ Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
    Inner Mongolian (China) Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
    Mongolia Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
    Russia Buriat at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)