Kalmyk Oirat
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Kalmyk, formerly anglicized as Calmuck, is a variety of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia, a federal subject of Russia. In Russia's Kalmykia, the modern Kalmyk langu
A bilingual (Russian and Kalmyk) sign with the text "Clean zone!" (Russian) and "Overseen zone!" (Kalmyk) at the Elista bus station
Mongolian language
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Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native t
Kalmyk Oirat
…of four Oirat tribes that absorbed some Ugric and Turkic tribes during their expansion westward. Similar to Middle Mongol and Written Oirat but unlike Mongolian proper, Kalmyk exhibits front-back vowel harmony. Unlike Middle Mongol, however, consonants are not restricted by harmony. For instance, the voiced…
Edict of Kublai Khan (1289). Only the 'Phags-pa script retains the complete Middle Mongol vowel system.
Nova N 176 found in Kyrgyzstan. The manuscript (dating to the 12th century Western Liao) is written in the Mongolic Khitan language using cursive Khitan large script. It has 127 leaves and 15,000 characters.
Mongolian script and Mongolian Cyrillic on Sükhbaatar's statue in Ulaanbaatar