Mongolic-Khitan · ISO 639-3 bua
Buriat Language буряад
Buriat is a Mongolic-Khitan language spoken by about 440,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Buriat is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Buriat
Language family
- Mongolic-Khitan
- Mongolic
- Eastern Mongolic
- Buriat
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Buriat language
Buriat (буряад) is spoken by about 440,000 people. It belongs to the Mongolic-Khitan language family and, more precisely, to the Eastern Mongolic group within the Eastern Mongolic branch.
Where is Buriat spoken?
Buriat is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (323,888).
Buriat is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Buriat is written in the Cyrillic script.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Mongolian, Halh Mongolian and Peripheral Mongolian.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bua.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.