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	Mongolian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mongolian (Монгол), is the best-known member of the Mongolian language family, and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia.
		Related languages include Kalmyk spoken near the Caspian Sea and Buriat of East Siberia, as well as a number of minor languages in China and the Mogholi language of Afghanistan.
		A hallmark of agglutinative languages is that these affixes, unlike in fusional languages, are almost always monomorphemic, composed of a single morpheme.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolian_language (887 words)

	'language' @ encyclopaediaOnline: the FREE online encyclopaedia (encyclopedia), dictionary, and grammar reference site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing.
		Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo-Saxon term for language, esp. for spoken language; as, the English tongue.
		Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties of expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language.
	www.encyclopaediaonline.com /article.asp?topic=language (369 words)

	63rd IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings - August 31- September 5, 1997
		languages which are spoken by ethnic minorities or languages which fulfil subsidiary social communicative functions within a certain multiethnic society, in restoring, preserving, and enhancing ethnic cultures have been widely recognized in modern societies.
		Some of language versions, especially used in Northern islands, are not even called Frisian (Fering in Fohr, Solring in Sylt, Halunder in Helgoland, etc.) For a recent decade the Frisian ethnocultural movement has significantly grown, and the number of schools where the Frisian language (languages) is taught as a subject of instruction has significantly increased.
		All minority languages, irrespective of the scope of their functionality and the number of speakers, are indispensable in preserving and developing original cultural treasures of various ethnic cultures.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla63/63diam.htm (2339 words)

	Buryat History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buryats from Buryatia as well as from northern and eastern Outer Mongolia played an important role in the new government; several of the cabinet posts were occupied by Buryats.
		Buryat intellectuals participated in the revival of Mongolian culture and were further emboldened to follow Mongolia's example in their own country.
		An apolitical All-Buryat Cultural Association was established with the purpose of cooperation between all Buryat ethnic areas and the revival of the Mongolian language.
	www.buryatmongol.com /history.html (3755 words)

	Mongolian language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian (Монгол), is the primary (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language of most of the residents of (A landlocked socialist republic in central Asia) Mongolia.
		It is also spoken in some of the surrounding areas in provinces of (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China and the (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russian Federation.
		Related languages include (additional info and facts about Kalmyk) Kalmyk spoken near the Caspian Sea and (additional info and facts about Buryat) Buryat of East Siberia, as well as a number of minor languages in China and the (additional info and facts about Moghol) Moghol of Afghanistan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mongolian_language.htm (297 words)

	Buryatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The predominant languages spoken in Buryatia are Russian and Buryat.
		The Chairman of the National Khural of the Buryat Republic and his deputy preside over sessions of the National Khural; manage the work routine of the National Khural; supervise the preparation and consideration of questions to be discussed by the National Khural; and, within the limits of their authority, issue decrees.
		The judicial system of the Buryat Republic is established in accordance with the Constitutions of the Russian Federation and the Buryat Republic and federal constitutional law.The legal status of judges established in federal law of the Russian Federation applies fully to judges in the Buryat Republic.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=12 (1753 words)

	JER: The Journal of Eurasian Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buryats speak the Buryat language of the north subgroup of the Mongolian group of the Altai family.
		In July 1958, according to the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR was renamed as the Buryat ASSR.
		In the case of the Buryat language, diglossia is a part of an exclusive circle: on the one hand, functional limitation of the indigenous language, especially of its lexicon, forces the language users to switch to the language, which can serve communication needs of the modern society more effectively.
	www.actr.org /JER/issue4/5.htm (2817 words)

	Resources on the Buryat
		From the middle of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th, the Buryat population increased from 27,700 to 300,000.
		Buryats west of Lake Baikal (Irkutsk Buryats) are "russified", and they soon abandoned nomadism for agriculture, whereas the eastern (Transbaikal) Buryats are closer to the Mongols, may live in yurts and are mostly Buddhists.
		The second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was a period of growth for the Buryat Buddhist church (48 datsans in Buryatia in 1914).
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/asian/Buryat.html (982 words)

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		Buryats have achieved a high level of education that helps equip many for work in regional industries such as aircraft manufacture." [1] The Buryat Republic, the southern part of the territory of East Siberia, is situated in the region between northern Mongolia and Lake Baikal.
		Buryats have a common traditional belief system - shamanism, which was overlaid by Tibetan form of Buddhism among the eastern and southern Buryats (in Transbaikalia) during the 18th century, and partly by Russian Orthodoxy among the western Buryats (in Cisbaikalia) during the 19th century.
		Since the 17th century Buryat lands were incorporated in the politics of the Russian Empire and have been increasingly settled by Russian peasants both Orthodox and Old Believers as well as Cossacks (Russian military frontier guards) who have been guarding the border with Mongolia and China.
	userpage.fu-berlin.de /~corff/im/Landeskunde/buryatia.unx (1650 words)

	Ethnologue: Russia, Asia
		Russian is used as the second language by all except older people as a contact language, for literature, and urban professional and cultural life.
		Dolgan is the contact language on the Tajmyr Peninsula, and is spoken also by Evenki, Nganasan, and long-term Russian residents.
		Torgon is the basis of the literary language.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/RusA.html (3296 words)

	Buryat Traditional Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Having traveled a bit in Russia, I had a vague idea who the Buryats were, but until I had spent some time with the visiting artists, I had little concept of the wealth of Buryat traditions or of the great transformations these traditions have undergone since the collapse of the Soviet system.
		My new Buryat musician acquaintances, Sayan Zhambalov, Namgar Lkhasaranova, and Battuvshin, illustrated through the stories of their lives the great knot of cultural and political influences that defines Buryat traditional culture today.
		Naturally, not all young Buryats are merrily leaving their apartments for felt tents, but at least symbolically, many are seeking the nomadic road forward by walking the paths of their ancestors.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~asiactr/haq/200001/0001a007.htm (2301 words)

	The Status of the Most Vulnerable Groups and Violation of Their Rights The Situation of Ethnic Minorities
		Given that the Tatar language is rarely used in the home, in official papers, or in the general or higher schools of learning, the government ruling to teach the Tatar language on a compulsory basis appears to be out of line with “the realities of the day,” according to S. Khapugin.
		While the language, culture, traditions and customs of the Tartars (Russia’s second-largest ethnic community) continue to be preserved and developed, with the republican authorities being truly concerned about the community’s growth, the situation found in other ethnic republics appear to be much worse.
		The language was then made an optional rather than a compulsory subject, and speedily lost the status of an active vehicle of person-to-person communication.
	www.mhg.ru /english/1E7E276 (8905 words)

	Visiting Scholars 2002-2003: Erzhen Khilkhanova
		She is currently teaching courses in the Russian Language and Standards of Speech, Sociolinguistics, and Ethnolinguistics.
		She is also in charge of several activities in the Department and the Center of Sociolinguistics and Speech Communications, such as research, international and interregional contacts, and fundraising.
		Her book entitled "The Language Construction of Reality in the German Tabloid Press (on Materials of the Bild, Newspaper)" was chosen for digitalization and publication in the OSI's electronic library as one of the best works sponsored by the Research Support Scheme.
	www.gwu.edu /~rpsol/scholars/khilkhanova.htm (857 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buryats show little risk for rebellion in the near future, despite territorial concentration and a strong group identity.
		These groups seek to reclaim the Buryat language (which many Buryat speak poorly or not at all) and to revive cultural art forms.
		In the post-Soviet era, Buryat have dominated the administration of Buryatia.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/rusburyt.htm (1025 words)

	Baikal lake Web World - explanation of the local terms and geographical names on Baikal and in Pribaikalye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Buryat "Khamar" is "a nose", "Dabaan" is "a high, difficult ascent, a mountain pass, a mountain".
		Due to this very fact it was named Olkhon, which in the Buryat language means "a bit woody" ("OY" means forest, woods and "khon, khan" is a diminutive suffix).
		In the Buryat Language "sakhur" means "flint" and "sakhurta" is a place where there is flint which had been till recently used by the Buryats for getting fire.
	www.bww.irk.ru /terms/terms.html (1778 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Altaic
		You have reached the page on Altaic languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		The language is spoken in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic.
		Mongolian was the language of the great Mongol Empire established by Genghis Khan in the 13th century.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/altaiclh.htm (2024 words)

	Red Stars Travel Agency - Tours and Travel - What You Need To Know About Our Tours
		The Buryat Republic (Buryatia) is a republic in the Russian Federation.
		Buryats are of Mongolian descent and share many customs with their Mongolian cousins including nomadic herding and setting up yurts for shelter.
		The ancestors of the modern Buryats are Mongols who made their home near Lake Baikal long before Genghis Khan swept through Asia during the early thirteenth century and have remained in the area until modern times.
	www.travel2russia.com /destguide/city11.htm (3013 words)

	Nikita's homestead on Olkhon Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Khoboy is translated as "a tusk" from the Buryat language.
		Shara-Nur is translated from the Buryat language as "Yellow Lake." It is the only lake with mineral waters found on Olkhon.
		The small group of women will sing Buryat songs for you, as well as giving a tour round their settlement and show all their crafts and tools, as well as seeing inside a traditional yurt.
	www.olkhon.info /excurs (1200 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Buryat are closely related to the Mongols, and the two groups share similar histories, cultures, religious beliefs, and lifestyles.
		The Buryat in China are separated from the larger Buryat family in Siberia and Mongolia by several hundred miles.
		The Buryat have two traditional types of marriage: marriages arranged by the parents and marriages by abduction.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code6/1611.html (815 words)

	Buryatia: Schoolchildren Show Good Knowledge of the Buryat Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He noted that the number of schoolchildren studying the Buryat language is constantly increasing.
		Teachers of the Buryat language are usually graduates from the National - Humanitarian institute of the BSU, faculty of primary education of the university and the Buryat republican college.
		It recommended not to reduce the number of lessons of the Buryat language and to pay attention to the technical equipment of the classrooms of the Buryat language at schools of the city.
	www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=12&par=2513 (905 words)

	The Iron Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Manshut’s many legends were later preserved in the original Buryat language by the famous Mongolist Jamtsarano (see the Buryat History page for a description of Jamtsarano’s role in modern Buryat history).
		Enkhe Bulat Baatar is the Buryat national opera, having been first performed in Ulan-Ude in 1940 in the city’s new opera theater.
		The more remarkable thing about the Buryat folk epics is that they were a purely oral tradition, passed down among the bards (uligershin) in the form of alliterated verses thousands of lines long.
	www.buryatmongol.com /enkhebulat.html (3779 words)

	Articles about lake Baikal
		Even the name "Buryat," is a Soviet creation, a tag applied during the 1930s to separate them from their ethnic brethren and their southern neighbors in Mongolia.
		Many of the people speak the Buryat language, which resembles Mongolian, but relatively few read and write it.
		The descendant of a long line of shamans, Khagdayev was born with a split thumb on his right hand, a kind of sixth finger that is considered a sign of the shaman spirit.
	www.baikaler.com /article06.html (754 words)

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : L
		The irony of this project is that many African languages will be not be scribable on the Internet because virtually no software applications or operating systems, and relatively few fonts, are available which support necessary encodings for all or most of the characters necessary to represent African languages (most of which use extended Latin alphabets).
		Loglan (Loglan ~ Logical language) A synthetic, algorithmic language, originally developed in the 1950s, which uses the Latin (Roman) alphabet and whose vocabulary and grammar are designed to be syntactically unambiguous.
		The language is called algorithmic because one of the sources of words is algorithmic construction of new words from other words.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/l.htm (4115 words)

	Sing till the sun sets
		They were to work with Buryat actors to create a new theatre piece, and with their new colleagues they travelled to an isolated region 500 miles away to collect the oral traditions of the region.
		The Western Buryat, a Turkic people who dominate the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Region north of Irkutsk (and outside Buryatia proper), are linked to the neighbouring Evenk by their common shamanistic beliefs (it is from this region that the word saman [shaman] comes).
		The Buryat were colonised by Russia from the 17th century onwards, and their lands were populated by Cossacks, Russian peasants, and 'Old Believers' - the fundamental Orthodox Christians expelled from Russia after refusing to accept new ritual practices brought in under Catherine the Great.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/siberia.htm (1111 words)

	Arshan Spa Resort, Russia. Green Express. Travel to Lake Baikal and Baikal-Mongolian Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Literally in Buryat language "arshan" stands for a sacred spring that possesses healing power and that's quite fair as far as this resort is concerned.
		Arshan's carbonic-sulphate-magnesium water is successfully used to cure heart and vascular diseases, stomach, liver and bilious ailments.
		Arshan is also known for traditional Buryat food with lots of meat in it.
	www.greenexpress.ru /eng/geographic-destinations/arshan-spa-resort.html (157 words)

	AyurVijnana Vol. 6, Spring 1999 - Medical Faculties of Buryat Buddhist Monasteries
		Crystal-clear spring healing water (arshan in the Buryat language) from the Atsagat area is known for its healing effect on many diseases, especially skin disorders.
		Traditionally, Buryats published the Mongolian and Tibetan texts on Russian paper, which was mainly produced in the Sumkin’s factories.
		The majority of the medical treatises in the Tibetan and Mongolian languages were published by the Buryat Datsans from the mid 19th century until the 1930s.
	www.ittm.org /publications/AyurVijnana/Vol_06/AV_V06_1.htm (2716 words)

	Baikal lake Web World - Baikal names - The Face of Baikal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The search for the word in the Buryat language can be explained by the fact that historically the Buryats as a people came into being in the lands around Baikal.
		Thus, attempts to explain the meaning of the word "baigal" by comparing it with the vocabulary of the Buryat language or on the basis of legends, and to find its etymology in the Buryat language have not been successful.
		The Buryats adopted this name, used it for a long time (it also entered into Buryat folklore) and bore it "with the help of Russian to the present day.
	www.bww.irk.ru /names/namebaigal.html (1528 words)

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		The name of the world's largest freshwater lake stems from the Buryat language and used to be pronounced as "bai-kul" which stood for "the rich lake".
		For the Buryat people the Baikal is and has always been "the sacred sea", and the source of inspiration for creating many of the ancient legends.
		Even nowadays many parts of the area around the lake are considered to be holy and bear the great importance for the religious life of people.
	olhon.ru (143 words)

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