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In 2005, Russian was the most widely taught foreign language in Mongolia, [46] and is compulsory in Year 7 onward as a second foreign language in 2006. [ 47 ] Russian is also spoken as a second language by a small number of people in Afghanistan .
Examples of Buriad usage in Aginskoie public space. Buryat or Buriat, [1] [2] [note 1] known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian, [note 2] [4] is a variety of the Mongolic languages spoken by the Buryats and Bargas that is classified either as a language or major dialect group of Mongolian.
A group of Russian and Mongolian officials, in a photo taken following the signing of the Russo-Mongol agreement in Urga in November 1912, by which Russia cautiously recognized the autonomy of Mongolia and obtained trade concessions. Russia and Mongolia share a 3,500-kilometer border. [2]
English has taken over from Russian as the dominant foreign language in Mongolia, particularly in Ulaanbaatar. [151] Mongolian national universities are all spin-offs from the National University of Mongolia and the Mongolian University of Science and Technology. Almost three in five Mongolian youths now enroll in university.
The language is revitalizing in primary schools. [1] In 2002, V. I. Rassadin published a Soyot–Buryat–Russian dictionary. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In 2020, he published a children's picture dictionary in the Soyot language, along with Russian, Mongolian, and English translations.
Within Mongolian proper, they then draw a distinction between Khalkha on the one hand and the Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia (containing everything else) on the other hand. A less common subdivision of Central Mongolic is to divide it into a Central dialect (Khalkha, Chakhar, Ordos), an Eastern dialect (Kharchin, Khorchin), a Western ...
Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken (but not always written) by nearly 3.6 million people (2014 estimate), [17] and the official provincial language (both spoken and written forms) of Inner Mongolia, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [18]
Chronological tree of the Mongolic languages. Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken by nearly 2.8 million people (2010 estimate), [81] and the official provincial language of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [82]