Buryat language
Buryat | ||
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Spoken in |
Russia , Mongolia | |
speaker | 300,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
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Official status | ||
Official language in | Buryatia | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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ISO 639 -2 |
bua |
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ISO 639-3 |
bua (macro language |
The Buryat language belongs to the eastern (language) group of the Mongolian languages .
It is one of the agglutinating languages , which form the word forms using independent syllables at the root word . It is spoken by 300,000 people, including especially Buryats in the Autonomous Republic of Buryatia in southern Siberia .
The language is also spoken by the Buryats in two neighboring regions of Buryatia, the Agin Buryat Autonomous Okrug in Transbaikalia and the Ust-Ordynsk Buryat Autonomous Okrug west of Lake Baikal .
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The Buryat language uses the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic | Transliteration ISO 9 |
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А а | A a |
Б б | B b |
В в * | V v |
Г г | G g |
Д д | D d |
Е е | E e |
Ё ё | Ë ë |
Ж ж | Ž ž |
З з | Z z |
И и | I i |
Й й | J j |
К к * | K k |
Л л | L l |
М м | M m |
Н н | N n |
О о | O o |
Ө ө | Ô ô |
П п | P p |
Р р | R r |
С с | S s |
Т т | T t |
У у | U u |
Ү ү | Ù ù |
Ф ф * | F f |
Х х | H h |
Ц ц * | C c |
Ч ч * | Č č |
Ш ш | Š š |
Щ щ | Ŝ ŝ |
Ъ ъ | "" |
Ы ы | Y y |
Ь ь | '' |
Э э | È è |
Ю ю | Û û |
Я я | Â â |
Һ һ | Ḥ ḥ |
The letters marked with * usually appear only in younger foreign words of Russian origin.