Oirat language

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Oirat language is a Mongolic language spoken primarily by the Oirat people in western Mongolia, China, and Russia, known for its historical use of the Clear Script.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Oirat language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mongolic language
natural language
subject of linguistic study
alsoKnownAs Kalmyk
surface form: Kalmyk-Oirat

Oirat Mongols
surface form: Oirat Mongolian

Western Mongolian
associatedWithScriptReform Clear script (Todo script)
surface form: Clear Script
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Buryat language
Khalkha Mongols
surface form: Khalkha Mongolian
hasCaseSystem true
hasDialect Dörbet dialect
Kalmyk language
surface form: Kalmyk dialect

Khoshut dialect
Torgut dialect
Ööld dialect
hasHistoricalPeriod Early modern period
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
hasWritingSystem Clear script (Todo script)
surface form: Clear Script

Cyrillic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Classical Mongolian script
surface form: Mongolian script
historicallyUsedScript Clear script (Todo script)
surface form: Clear Script
ISO639-3Code xwo
languageFamily Mongolic languages
primaryRegion Central Asia
East Asia
spokenBy Oirat people
spokenIn China
Gansu Province
surface form: Gansu

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
surface form: Inner Mongolia

Republic of Kalmykia
surface form: Kalmykia

Kazakhstan
Mongolia
Qinghai
Russia
western Mongolia
surface form: Western Mongolia

Xinjiang
subclassOf Central Mongolic language
usedByEthnicGroup Dörbet Oirats
Kalmyk
surface form: Kalmyks

Khoshuts
Torguts
Öölds
usedInAdministration Dzungar Khanate
usedInReligion Tibetan Buddhism
usesPostpositions true
writingSystemDevelopedBy Zaya Pandita

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mongolic languages hasPart Oirat language
Mongolic languages languageFamilyOf Oirat language
Proto-Mongolic language hasDescendant Oirat language
Oirat confederation (periodically) language Oirat language
subject surface form: Oirat confederation
Oirat Mongols language Oirat language
Kalmückisches Wörterbuch subject Oirat language
Dzungar people language Oirat language