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ALSO KNOWN AS		Russian Buriat, бурят-монгольский язык, buryaad xelen, буриад аялгуу, Buryat, Northern Mongolian, Burjatisch, буряад хэлэн, buriaad xelen
CLASSIFICATION		Mongolic, Common Mongolic, Northern Common Mongolic
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bxr
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Alar Unga Oka Ekhirit Bohaan Barguzin Tunka Bulagat Ninzne-Udinsk
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Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<50,000
Native speakers worldwide
CHILDREN
relatively few

DATE OF INFO: 1993

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

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.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Russian

Scripts (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

More on Orthography

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

PLACES: 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.

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
369,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
445,175
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2002 Russian census.

DATE OF INFO: 2002

PLACES: Russia; China; Mongolia;

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
318,000
Native speakers worldwide

	2000	Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia				UNESCO	http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html			<50,000	1993	10000-99999		Russian	All	Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13	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.	Russia	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.
		World Oral Literature Project					http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			318,000		100000				At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub													50.8336,109.5117
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	445,175	369,000	2002	100000	Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 2002 Russian census.			At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Russia; China; Mongolia;

Western Buryat

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<50,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

369,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

318,000

Discussion

Western Buryat

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

<50,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

369,000

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

318,000

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