Buryat
Americanadjective
noun
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Buryats,
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Buryat
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a member of any of the Mongol people in the Republic of Buryatia.
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the Mongolian language of the Buryat.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people living chiefly in the Buryat Republic
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the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family
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By the time he was recruited into the army he was in his final year at the Buryat Republican Technical School of Construction.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
According to Yekaterina Morland, an ethnic Buryat volunteer at the Asians of Russia Foundation, Buryatia has seen mobilization rates up to six times higher than Russia’s European regions.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Eventually, a serviceman she believed to be an ethnic Buryat from Siberia offered to let her speak to someone he said knew the full story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Yevgenia Baltatarova, an independent Buryat journalist from Ulan-Ude, in Siberia, spoke to me from Kazakhstan.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
They are heard by reindeer-herding Chukchi tribesmen in Siberia, Buryat farmers near the Mongolian border and Estonian fishermen by the Baltic Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Buryats, a Mongol ethnic group indigenous to Buryatia, in eastern Siberia, traditionally follow Buddhist and shamanic belief systems.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2022
“We’re going to stay here for a long time,” the Buryats told my aunt.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
One third of the roughly 1 million people of Buryatia, which shares a border with Mongolia, are ethnic Buryats and mostly of the Buddhist faith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
It is hard to see how these demonstrations speak to a country made up of more than 100 ethnic groups, including Muslim Tatars and Chechens, as well as Buddhist Buryats.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2013
Indeed the very word Shaman is of Tungus origin, though current also amongst the Buryats and Yakuts.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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