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Buriat|ˈbuːrɪət|
Also Buryat.
A member of a Mongolian people inhabiting the borders of Lake Baikal, Siberia; their language. Also attrib. or adj. = Buriˈatic a., belonging to the Buriat people.
1836Penny Cycl. VI. 29 The Buriates constitute one of the three great divisions of nations into which the Mongols are divided. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 1/2 Ural-Altaic languages..Mongolic..Buriat or Siberian Mongolian, east and west of Lake Baikal. 1895Westm. Gaz. 23 Nov. 7/1 The thirty Mongolian Buriats who, on the Emperor's initiative, have been brought to St. Petersburg for their education. 1902Ibid. 28 Feb. 2/1 Disguised as a Buryat, and accompanied by one Buryatic Cossack..I set off. 1903Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 3/2 He made the experiment..in disguise as a Buriat Lama. 1947D. Diringer Alphabet ii. v. 318 The three principal [Mongolian] dialects, Khalkha, Kalmuck and Buriat, do not differ much. 1957Encycl. Brit. IV. 410/2 Buriat (Buryat) Mongol Republic, an autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Asiatic Russia, created as a region in Jan. 1922, and as a republic in Sept. 1923. |