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Article name Buryat Chronicles as sources for Buryat language Studies
Authors Badmayeva L.B. Candidate of Philology, associate professor, lorabadm@mail.ru
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Section Oriental Studies
UDK 81 = 512.31
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Annotation This article deals with Buryat chronicles as sources for the study of the history of the modern Buryat language. The paper presents the most famous chronicles written by T. Toboev, V. Yumsunov, Ts.-Zh. Sakharov, D.-Zh. Lombotserenov, etc. The author notes that within 50 years Buryats had to change four types of visual communication: Old Mongolian writing, Vagindara writing, Latin and Cyrillic and that the origin of the new script is associated with the formation of a new state. The paper summarizes the results of the study of the language of the Buryat chronicles in the 19th century and emphasizes that the spelling changes in the texts of the chronicles of the 19th century became norms of the modern Buryat language. The linguistic background of Buryat chronicles is an intermediate written version between the classic Mongolian written language and the spoken form of the Buryat language. The author defines this written version as Old Mongolian Buryat language recension.
Key words Buryat chronicles, language of the Buryat chronicles, Old Mongolian, modern Buryat language, history of the Mongolian languages development.
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