Oirat language

E300209

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.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Oirat language canonical 8

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

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