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| Khalkha-Buriat | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Mongolia, Russia, China |
| Genetic classification: |
Altaic[1] (controversial) Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Khalkha-Buriat |
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The Khalkha-Buriat languages are a group of closely-related languages spoken in Central Asia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian (in Cyrillic orthography as used in Mongolia, Монгол Хэл, and in the vertical Uygur-derived script as used in Inner Mongolia, China, Mongγol Kele), is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia, and is spoken by around 5.7 million people in Mongolia, Russia, and Inner Mongolia.
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