Talk:Buryat language

message: "Macrolanguage" is the term used by ISO 639-3 to describe Buryat, so it is the correct "technical" term used when referring to that standard. (Taivo (talk) 07:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would hold that average readers don't understand the term "macrolanguage" without looking into ISO 639-3. If she has sufficient linguistic knowledge, she might consider it intuitive for "varieties" such as Chinese, Arabic or Quechua. But as we can't expect them to do so, it isn't useful to name this quite special terminology in the first place. Buryat is usually conceived of as a language, sometimes as one of the three major dialects of Mongolian, and you don't address this customary understanding by referring to technical terms that belong to one classificational scheme. (And I must say I'm getting less and less confident into this scheme for Mongolic. Taking "Mongolian" (that I know far better than Buryat) as another macrolanguage and dividing it into "Halh Mongolian" and "Peripheral Mongolian" might be politically feasible, but it is rubbish from a linguistical viewpoint. No one considers Sönid as a member of some Khalkha variety, but in an internal classification of Mongolian proper, it must be understood as belonging into the same group. Chakhar, then, is nearer to Khalkha than to Khorchin, so a binary classification should group it accordingly.) G Purevdorj (talk) 10:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I really don't have any agenda here to use "macrolanguage".  I think that the ISO is sometimes a bit too finely honed when it comes to naming "languages" and that this is a case in point. (Taivo (talk) 17:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Macrolanguage

message: According to two dictionaries I consulted, the word xada in (Russian) Buryat does indeed primarily mean "mountain" instead of "rock, cliff" (as would be the case in Khalkha, Kalmyk etc.). However, as the person who recently changed this word might have been knowledgable about another variety of Buryat, I'd suggest that s/he name her source. Alternatively, s/he could also discuss the matter in Buryat. While I doubt that it is appropriate to change the label, the matter itself is quite interesting. G Purevdorj (talk) 08:48, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Xada

message: Not ideal sources but the information checks out
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z5umNthHltQC&pg=PA293#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=5JN83EDDLl4C&pg=PA645#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=BoWGituXr8MC&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false
Someone with more knowledge should create an article on this vagindra script.
I found the Russian article on vagindra script at ru:Вагиндра. Also here at Agvan_Dorzhiev#Vagindra_script.
http://www.buryatia.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showpic&pid=3523&orderby=dateD
Rajmaan (talk) 16:11, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vagindra script 

message: M. Alexander Castrén's Versuch einer burjätischen sprachlehre, nebst kurzem wörterverzeichniss (1857)
https://archive.org/details/malexandercastr00schigoog
https://archive.org/details/malexandercastr02castgoog
Rajmaan (talk) 19:32, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buryat language material in German - M. Alexander Castrén's Versuch einer burjätischen sprachlehre, nebst kurzem wörterverzeichniss (1857) 

message: Buriat, Russia Genesis Translation (1836)
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_bxr_gen-1
Rajmaan (talk) 00:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Buriat, Russia Genesis Translation (1836)

message: I don't know who added the citation for the grammar, but I'm pretty sure we aren't supposed to use premium services as a source. 
If someone with more knowledge can come in and fix that, that would be great. Densc (talk) 04:55, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor sourcing for grammar 

message: :https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/cess2021/p/10687 
:https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/troubled-state-buryat-language-today
:I do not know the subject to describe the problem myself.Xx236 (talk) 12:19, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endangered language