Context 18621: Western Buryat (Source: Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia)

Western Buryat

Also Known As:

Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen, буриад аялгуу, Buryat, Northern Mongolian, Burjatisch, буряад хэлэн, buriaad xelen

Dialects & Varieties

Alar
Unga
Oka
Ekhirit
Bohaan
Barguzin
Tunka
Bulagat
Ninzne-Udinsk

Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia

Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

About Vitality Level

<50,000

Native Speakers Worldwide

Transmission

Transmission 3

Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.

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Speakers

Native or fluent speakers:

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers or rememberers

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Children:

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Young adults

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Older adults

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Elders

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Ethnic or community population

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Year information was gathered

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Comments on speakers

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Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Location Description

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.

Government Support

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Institutional Support

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Speakers' Attitude

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Other Languages Used By The Community

Russian

Number of Other Language Speakers:

All

Domains of Other Languages:

None

Writing Systems

Standard orthography:

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Writing system:

Cyrillic script

Other writing systems used:

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Comments on writing systems:

Written Mongolian was traditionally not used as a literary language, but Standard Eastern Buryat (in Cyrillic script) gained some foothold during the Soviet period.