Mongolia Buriat language

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Mongolia Buriat
Spoken in: Mongolia 
Region: northeast
Total speakers: 64,900
Language family: Altaic[1]
 Mongolic
  Eastern
   Oirat-Khalkha
    Khalkha-Buriat
     Buriat
      Mongolia Buriat
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: bxm

Mongolia Buriat (or Mongolia Buryat, Bur:aad, Khori) is a Mongolic language spoken in northeast Mongolia. Mongolia Buriat differs considerably from Russia Buriat and China Buriat. It has been inflenced by Standard Mongolian. Mongolia Buriat speakers use Mongolian as a literary language and literacy is high. [2]

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  1. ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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