Western Buryat
[también conocido como Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen]Clasificación: Mongolic
·en peligro de extinción
- FECHA DE INFORMACIÓN
- 1993
- TRANSMISIÓN
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- MÁS SOBRE LA VITALIDAD
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Deteriorating due to interference from Russian, invariably known as a second language; Russian cultural impact has also been stronger on the speakers of Western Buryat than on those of Eastern Buryat.
- OTRAS LENGUAS UTILIZADAS POR LA COMUNIDAD
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Russian
- Alfabetos, sistemas de escritura y ortografías
- Cyrillic script
- Ortografía
Written Mongolian was traditionally not used as a literary language, but Standard Eastern Buryat (in Cyrillic script) gained some foothold during the Soviet period.
- LUGARES
- Russia
- DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA UBICACIÓN
In Cisbaikalia, to the north of the Eastern Sayan mountains and in the Angara region; officially concentrated in the Ust'-Orda (Ust'-Ordynskij) Autonomous District of Irkutsk Oblast; a displaced dialect of Western Buryat is also spoken in the Barguzin valley of Transbaikalia.