Mongolia Buriat language
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| Mongolia Buriat | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mongolia | |
| Region: | northeast | |
| Total speakers: | 64,900 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Khalkha-Buriat Buriat Mongolia Buriat |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | bxm | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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]
[edit] Notes
- ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

