== Talk:Kalmyk people == 

 I'm not really qualified to intervene in this debate - establishing who are the 'true' ethnic ancestors of modern-day peoples is invariably a thankless (and frequently fruitless) task which attracts the worst kinds of mythologisers. All I would say is that in English-language articles the most familiar forms of given terms should be used, regardless of transliteration or 'self-labelling' considerations (Think 'Germans', not 'Deutsche Volk') and 'Kalmyk' is far more commonly used than 'Oirat' (let alone 'Oyirad', which is a spelling I've never seen before).