Also Known As:
Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen, буриад аялгуу, Buryat, Northern Mongolian, Burjatisch, буряад хэлэн, buriaad xelen
Dialects & Varieties
- Alar
- Unga
- Oka
- Ekhirit
- Bohaan
- Barguzin
- Tunka
- Bulagat
- Ninzne-Udinsk
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<50,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
3
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
In Cisbaikalia, to the north of the Eastern Sayan mountains and in the Angara region; officially concentrated in the Ust'-Orda (Ust'-Ordynskij) Autonomous District of Irkutsk Oblast; a displaced dialect of Western Buryat is also spoken in the Barguzin valley of Transbaikalia.
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
All
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
Written Mongolian was traditionally not used as a literary language, but Standard Eastern Buryat (in Cyrillic script) gained some foothold during the Soviet period.
Recent Resources
Zhimba-lama from Tamchinsky datsan (Buryatia) talking about life and religion.
Goodness - Clip about buryat language
Мультфильм рассказывает о большом бурятском празднике на родном языке.