Buriat, Mongolia
A language of Mongolia
| Population | 64,900 (1995). |
| Region | Northeast, especially former Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic border. |
| Alternate names | Burraad, Buriat-Mongolian, Buryat, Mongolian Buriat, Northern Mongolian |
| Dialects | Khori, Aga. Buriat in Mongolia is a variety of Khori and differs considerably from Buriat [bxu] of China and the Russian Federation. Influenced by Standard (Halh) Mongolian [khk]. |
| Classification | Altaic, Mongolic, Eastern, Oirat-Khalkha, Khalkha-Buriat, Buriat A member of macrolanguage Buriat [bua] (Russian Federation (Asia)). |
| Language use | Also use Halh Mongolian as literary language. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: High in Halh. |
| Writing system | Cyrillic script. Latin script, used in 1930s. Mongolian script, used until 1917. |
| Comments | Some books in Buriat. Not a literary language in Mongolia. Traditional religion, Buddhist (Lamaist). |
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