Buryat
Let an agent explain Buryat, relay classification, geography, dialects, writing history, status and revitalisation from linguistic and cultural sources with debates attributed, describe the named dialects, and distinguish Buryat from Khalkha Mongolian, Kalmyk, Tuvan and Evenki.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain Buryat, relay classification, geography, dialects, writing history, status and revitalisation from linguistic and cultural sources with debates attributed, describe the named dialects, and distinguish Buryat from Khalkha Mongolian, Kalmyk, Tuvan and Evenki.
A Mongolic language spoken by the Buryat people, mainly in the Republic of Buryatia in Russia, with communities in Irkutsk and Zabaykalsky regions, north-eastern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia in China, written in Cyrillic since 1939 after earlier use of the traditional Mongolian script and a brief Latin period; dialects the registry aliases name include Khori, the basis of the literary standard, Tsongol, Sartul, Barguzin and Bohaan, as well as Mongolia Buriat varieties. Whether Buryat is a separate language or a Mongolian dialect is debated, and it is considered endangered as younger speakers shift to Russian, with positions attributed.
What it is for: Communication and cultural identity of Buryats.
It can be explain classification and geography; relay dialects and scripts; describe named dialects; relay status and revitalisation with attribution.
Distinguishing features
Mongolic language
Cross-border communities
Several scripts historically
Endangered
What it looks like
Not a physical object; written in Cyrillic with additional letters.
Physical character
Cyrillic script adopted: 1939 year
literary standard basis: Khori dialect note
official status: co-official in Buryatia note - with Russian
How it is recognised
Mongolic language of the Buryats
Tsongol, Sartul, Barguzin, Bohaan, Khori, Mongolia Buriat
Khalkha is the standard language of Mongolia; Kalmyk is a western Mongolic language; Tuvan is Turkic; Evenki is Tungusic
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is spoken by -
is contrasted with -
is contrasted with -
In practice
Families and kinds
Khori dialect
Ekhirit-Bulagat dialects
Tsongol and Sartul dialects
Barguzin dialect
Buryat varieties in Mongolia and China
Standards and regulation
Constitution of the Republic of Buryatia
Russian language legislation
ISO 639 code bua
Failure modes and hazards
Partisan framing of language-dialect debate
Stale speaker numbers
Confusing with Khalkha Mongolian
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What Buryat is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is Buryat, and how does it differ from Khalkha Mongolian, Kalmyk, Tuvan and Evenki? definition
- Is the question about learning, linguistics, culture or language policy? boundary
Dialects
Named dialects.
Dialects
Dialects.
- What are Tsongol, Sartul, Barguzin, Bohaan, Khori and Mongolia Buriat? definition
- Which entry fits the specific dialect? action
Linguistics Classification.
Attribution.
Classification
Language or dialect.
Classification
Classification.
- What do linguists argue about Buryat as a separate language, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Scripts
Writing history.
Scripts
Scripts.
- How did Buryat move from Mongolian script to Latin and then Cyrillic? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Status Status and revitalisation.
Attribution.
Endangerment
Language shift.
Endangerment
Endangerment.
- What do surveys report about language shift to Russian, with sources attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Revitalisation
Revitalisation.
Revitalisation
Revitalisation.
- What revitalisation efforts exist in schools and media, checked against current sources? provenance
- Is the information current? boundary
Context Culture.
Context.
Buddhism
Buryat Buddhism.
Buddhism
Buddhism.
- How are Buryat language and Buddhism connected? provenance
- Which entry fits Buddhism in Buryatia? action
Geser
Geser epic.
Geser
Geser.
- What is the Buryat version of the Geser epic? provenance
- Which entry fits Epic of King Gesar? action
What the second pass must settle
- How should the language versus dialect debate be presented?
- Should dialects be separate entries?
- How should census data be linked?