Kalmuck language
| Kalmyk | ||
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Spoken in |
Kalmykia ( Russia ) | |
| speaker | 180,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in |
 Kalmykia ( Russia )
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
xal |
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| ISO 639-3 |
xal |
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The Kalmuck language (also Kalmuk or Kalmyk language ; Kalmyk: Хальмг келн ) is a variety of the Oirat language and as such is counted among the Mongolian languages .
Like all Mongolian languages, it is an agglutinating language . Kalmuck is spoken by 180,000 people and is the official language in the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia . The plain text created in 1648 was used until 1923 . Kalmyk has been written in Cyrillic since 1923 , with an interruption from 1931 to 1938, when the Latin alphabet was used.
Dictionaries, learning and teaching materials
- EC Bardaev, VL Kirjuchaev: Russko-kalmyckij razgovornik. Kalmyckoe knižnoe izdatel'stvo, Elista 1993, 240 pages, ISBN 5-7539-0271-5 .
