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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.
The Buryats [a] are a Mongolic ethnic group native to southeastern Siberia who speak the Buryat language. They are one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia , the other being the Yakuts . The majority of the Buryats today live in their titular homeland, the Republic of Buryatia , a federal subject of Russia which sprawls along the ...
A bilingual (Russian and Kalmyk) sign with the text "Clean zone!"(Russian) and "Overseen zone!" (Kalmyk) at the Elista bus station. Kalmyk Oirat (Kalmyk: Хальмг Өөрдин келн, Haľmg Öördin keln, [xalʲˈmək øːrˈdin keˈlən]), [3] commonly known as the Kalmyk language (Kalmyk: Хальмг келн, Haľmg keln, [xalʲˈmək keˈlən]), is a variety of the Mongolian ...
The Mongolic language family has about 6 million speakers. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, with an estimated 5.2 million speakers. [5] Geographic distribution of Mongolic languages
*kʰ was spirantized to /x/ in Ulaanbaatar Khalkha and the Mongolian dialects south of it, e.g. Preclassical Mongolian kündü, reconstructed as *kʰynty 'heavy', became Modern Mongolian /xunt/ [13] (but in the vicinity of Bayankhongor and Baruun-Urt, many speakers will say [kʰunt]). [14]
Mongolian script and Mongolian Cyrillic on Sukhbaatar's statue in Ulaanbaatar. Mongolian has been written in a variety of alphabets, making it a language with one of the largest number of scripts used historically. The earliest stages of Mongolian (Xianbei, Wuhuan languages) may have used an indigenous runic script as indicated by Chinese sources.
The Russian and Qing Empires supported his action because this coup weakened Western Mongolian strength. Galdan Boshugtu's army was defeated by the outnumbering Qing army in 1696 and he died in 1697. The Mongols who fled to the Buryat region and Inner Mongolia returned after the war.
Oirat (Clear script: ᡆᡕᡅᠷᠠᡑ ᡍᡄᠯᡄᠨ, Oirad kelen; Kalmyk: Өөрд, Öörd; Khalkha Mongolian: Ойрад, Oirad [ˈœe̯rət]) is a Mongolic language spoken by the descendants of Oirat Mongols, now forming parts of Mongols in China, Kalmyks in Russia and Mongolians.