Oirats
Let an agent handle the Oirats by history, subgroups, language, communities and culture, using self-designations, sourced figures and neutral language.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle the Oirats by history, subgroups, language, communities and culture, using self-designations, sourced figures and neutral language.
A Mongolic people, also called Western Mongols, whose self-designation is Oirad, historically forming confederations such as the Dzungar Khanate; today Oirat communities live in western Mongolia, in Xinjiang and other parts of China, and in Russia, where the Kalmyks are their descendants; subgroups include the Choros, Khoshut and Olot.
What it is for: Understanding a people, their history and culture.
It can be describe Oirat history with sources; identify subgroups and communities; find information on the Oirat language and script; find cultural organisations and heritage.
Distinguishing features
Mongolic people
Western Mongol confederation history
Communities in several countries
Distinct language varieties
What it looks like
A people, not an object; represented by communities, traditions and cultural heritage.
How it is recognised
Self-designation Oirad
Clear Script (Todo Bichig) heritage
Khalkha Mongols are a distinct group
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - descendant community
speaks - language
is related to - historical polity
In practice
Families and kinds
Choros
Khoshut
Olot
Torghut
Kalmyks (descendant community in Russia)
Standards and regulation
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (where applicable)
National minority rights frameworks
Failure modes and hazards
Using exonyms instead of self-designations
Unsourced population figures
Stereotyping
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.
People Who they are.
Self-designation first.
Name
Self-designation.
Name
Self-designation.
- How do Oirats name themselves, and which exonyms exist? provenance
- Which names do communities prefer? provenance
Subgroups
Groups.
Subgroups
Subgroups.
- Which subgroups make up the Oirats, according to sources? provenance
- Where does each live? provenance
History Past.
History needs sources.
Confederation
Historical polities.
Confederation
Historical polities.
- What was the Dzungar Khanate, according to historians? provenance
- How did it end? provenance
Migration
Movements.
Migration
Migrations.
- How did the Kalmyk migration to the Volga region occur, according to historians? provenance
- Are there contested accounts? boundary
Culture Language and traditions.
Culture is living.
Language
Oirat language.
Language
Language.
- What is the status of the Oirat language today? provenance
- Is the Clear Script still taught? provenance
Traditions
Heritage.
Traditions
Traditions.
- Which traditions, such as the Jangar epic, do communities maintain? provenance
- Which organisations support them? provenance
Communities Today.
Figures need dates.
Numbers
Population.
Numbers
Population.
- How many people identify as Oirat, according to censuses and which year? provenance
- How are they counted in each country? definition
Neutral
Language.
Neutral
Neutral language.
- Is the description neutral and free of stereotypes? boundary
- Are political issues attributed? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should subgroups be separate entries?
- How should population figures be sourced?
- How should historical polities be linked?