Kalmyk Oirat
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Kalmyk Oirat (Kalmyk: Хальмг Өөрдин келн, Haľmg Öördin keln, IPA: [xalʲˈmək øːrˈdin keˈlən]),[2] commonly known as the Kalmyk language (Kalmyk: Хальмг келн, Haľmg keln, IPA: [xalʲˈmək keˈlən]), is a variety of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia, a federal subject of Russia. In Russia, it is the standard form of the Oirat language (based on the Torgut dialect), which belongs to the Mongolic language family. The Kalmyk people of the Northwest Caspian Sea of Russia claim descent from the Oirats from Eurasia, who have also historically settled in Mongolia and Northwest China. According to UNESCO, the language is "Definitely endangered".[3] According to the Russian census of 2021, there are 110,000 speakers of an ethnic population consisting of 178,000 people.[1]
Kalmyk | |
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Хальмг келн Haľmg keln ᡍᠠᠯᡅᡏᠠᡎ ᡍᡄᠯᡄᠨ | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Kalmykia |
Ethnicity | Kalmyks |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2021)[1] |
Cyrillic, Latin, Clear script | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Russia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | xal |
ISO 639-3 | xal |
xal-kal | |
Glottolog | kalm1244 |
ELP | Kalmyk-Oirat |
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