Buryat (Buriat) /ˈbʊriæt/ (Buryat Cyrillic: буряад хэлэн; buryaad khelen) is a variety of Mongolic spoken by the Buryats that is classified either as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and Aga Buryatia. In the Russian census of 2002, 353,113 people out of an ethnic population of 445,175 reported speaking Buryat (72.3%). Some other 15,694 can also speak Buryat, mostly ethnic Russians. There are at least 100,000 ethnic Buryats in Mongolia and the People's Republic of China as well. Buryats in Russia have a separate literary standard, written in a Cyrillic alphabet. It is based on the Russian alphabet with three additional letters: Ү/ү, Ө/ө and Һ/һ.
Dialects
The delimitation of Buryat mostly concerns its relationship to its immediate neighbors, Mongolian proper and Khamnigan. While Khamnigan is sometimes regarded as a dialect of Buryat, this is not supported by isoglosses. The same holds for Tsongol and Sartul dialects, which rather group with Khalkha Mongolian to which they historically belong. Buryat dialects are:
One’s last and first name, place of birth and the language in which their obituary is written can all offer hints to their ethnic origin ... news Languages in RussiaDisappearingFaster than Data Suggests, Activists Warn.
Alisi Telengut) — The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat language (a Mongolian dialect).
Soup Shulen is a staple dish in Buryat cuisine and is commonly eaten during special occasions and celebrations. The Buryats are an ethnic group that has lived in the region around Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia for centuries.
The same concerns were echoed by Dashin Amgalan, a teacher of Buryat, a language native to the peoples of Buryatia, a republic in Siberia...Knowing just two phrases is not a sign of knowing the language,” said Amgalan.
They have their own language, their own epic poetry, their own traditions and even their own (quite developed) cinema ...Buryats ... The Buryats live near Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia. Their language ...
In an interview with America Magazine published on Monday, PopeFrancis off-handedly disparaged Russia's Buryat and Chechen ethnic minorities, characterizing them as the "cruelest" soldiers in the Russian military.
We saw the biggest losses [of Buryat servicemen] in the beginning of the war, when they sent them there as cannon fodder ... We pointed out that these were not Buryat, they were from another ethnicity and were speaking a completely different language.
Some of these are true ... 1. Legend of the terrible dragon ... 2 ... Nikolai Rutin/TASS ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 'Bai' in many languages means "great, great". In Buryat, 'Baigal-dalai' means "large body of water, like a sea"; in Yakut, "baihal", "baig'al" means "big, deep water".
Media coverage has typecast Chechens as savage and Buryats as bloodthirsty and both as fiercely loyal to Putin, in spite of long-term repression of their people by the Kremlin ... Even people who have mixed-Buryat heritage.
The Russian language was subject to two large-scale reforms throughout its history ... Also, it was planned to include other languages that had their own authentic writing in the transition, such as Georgian, Armenian, Kalmyk, Buryat and others.
The Russians themselves believed in this myth, despite the fact that they belong to very different ethnic groups - Buryats, Ingush, Chukchi, Bashkirs, and Chechens, who have their own language and ...
“A large number of Buryats are now fighting in Ukraine, because it’s almost the only way for these young guys to earn money,” says the Buryat-Chinese artist Yumzhana Sui, who makes anti-war work in the Buryat language.
Born in a remote Buryat ... Translated from the Buryat language, ‘ulger’ means ‘story’, and that’s the name of the series of dolls made according to Dashi’s sketches.
