ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Eurasia · ISO 639-3 bxu · Glottocode chin1476

China Buriat

China Buriat expands the Mongolic profiles with a threatened language sourced in China, Mongolia and Russia and assigned Mongolian script.

Language family
Mongolic-Khitan
Likely script
Mongolian (Mong)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
Eurasia
Source country codes
CN · MN · RU
Reference point
48.759, 117.786

Open research question

Which script variants, border settings and institutional norms shape actual use across the three source countries?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.