Torgut Oirat

Torgut
Native toPeople's Republic of China, Mongolia, Russia
RegionXinjiang, Khovd, eastern Kalmykia
Native speakers
(270,000, incl. all Kalmyk in Russia, cited 1987–2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologtorg1245
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Torgut, also spelled Torghud, is a dialect of the Oirat language spoken in Xinjiang, in western Mongolia and in eastern Kalmykia (where it was the basis for Kalmyk, the literary standard language of that region[2]). Thus, it has more speakers than any other variety of Oirat.[3] It is better researched than any other Oirat variety spoken in China.[4]

  1. ^ Oirat at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Bläsing 2003: 229
  3. ^ Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 398
  4. ^ Bulaγ-a 2005: 11ff.