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
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
bua |
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| ISO 639-3 |
bua (macro language |
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
