Western Buryat
[alias Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen]Klassifizierung: Mongolic
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- DATUM DER INFORMATION
- 1993
- VERBREITUNG
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- MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT
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Deteriorating due to interference from Russian, invariably known as a second language; Russian cultural impact has also been stronger on the speakers of Western Buryat than on those of Eastern Buryat.
- ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
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Russian
- Skripte (Schreibsysteme und Orthografien)
- Cyrillic script
- Rechtschreibung
Written Mongolian was traditionally not used as a literary language, but Standard Eastern Buryat (in Cyrillic script) gained some foothold during the Soviet period.
- ORTE
- Russia
- ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
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.