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THE LINGUISTICS STUDENT’S HANDBOOK 242
Language name Buryat �bυri�t
Language name Burushaski bυrυ�ʃ�ski
Autonym (if known and different) buryaad xelen
Autonym (if known and different)
Language family Altaic Mongolian
Language family isolate
Spoken in Russian Federation round Lake Baikal
Spoken in Kashmir
Approximate number of speakers 360k
Approximate number of speakers 60k
Writing system Cyrillic
Writing system unwritten
Phonetics/phonology
Phonetics/phonology
Stress
Stress quantity-based
Contains following rare
consonant (types)
Contains following rare retroflex, uvular
consonant (types)
Said to have how many vowels? 7 long�6 short�4 diphthongs
Said to have how many vowels? 5
Marked vowel types front rounded
Marked vowel types
Tone none
Tone tonal accent
Rhythm no information
Rhythm no information
Vowel harmony front–back and rounding
Vowel harmony none
Morphology agglutinative word-based
Particular formation types suffix
Morphology agglutinative stem-based for
and fusional verbs; word-based
for nouns
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Particular formation types dvandva; prefix; suffix
Particular syntactic phenomena nominative / accusative marking
Syntax
Word order SOV AN postpositions
PossN
Points of interest
Particular syntactic phenomena ergative /absolutive; nominative / accusative; gender
Sources Haspelmath et al. (2005), Skribnik (2003)
Points of interest
Sources Bashir (2005), Katzner (1977), Maddieson (1984),
Ruhlen (1976), Wälchli (2005), Yip (2002)
Buwandik see Bunganditj