Western Buryat
[également appelé Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen]Classification : Mongolic
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- DATE OF INFO
- 1993
- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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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.
- AUTRES LANGUES PARLÉES PAR LA COMMUNAUTÉ
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Russian
- Caractères, systèmes d'écriture et orthographes
- Cyrillic script
- Orthographe
Written Mongolian was traditionally not used as a literary language, but Standard Eastern Buryat (in Cyrillic script) gained some foothold during the Soviet period.
- PLACES
- 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.