Buryat language

Buryat
Buryat
Buriat
буряад хэлэн buryaad khelen; ᠪᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠳ; ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ; ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ
Native to	Eastern Russia (Buryatia Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia, Aga Buryatia), northern Mongolia, Northeast China (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia)
Ethnicity	Buryats, Barga Mongols
Native speakers	440,000 (2017–2020)
Language family	Mongolic Central Mongolic Buryat–Mongolian Buryat; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic, Mongolian script, Vagindra script, Latin
Official status
Official language in	Buryatia (Russia)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	bua Buriat
ISO 639-3	bua – inclusive code Buriat; Individual codes:; bxu – Inner Mongolian (China) Buriat; bxm – Mongolia Buriat; bxr – Russia Buriat
Glottolog	buri1258
ELP	Eastern Buryat; Western Buryat; New Bargut; Old Bargut;
	Buryat is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Buryat or Buriat, known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian, is a variety of the Mongolic languages spoken by the Buryats and Bargas that is classified either as a language or major dialect group of Mongolian.

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