Darkhat language
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| Darkhat | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mongolia | |
| Region: | Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia | |
| Total speakers: | 20,350 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Oirat-Kalmyk-Darkhat Darkhat |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Mongolia | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | drh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Darkhat is a dialect of the Mongolian language and the primary language of most of the residents around Lake Khövsgöl.
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[edit] Classification
Darkhat is a Mongolic language. The Altaic theory proposes that the Mongolic family is a member of the larger Altaic family, which would also include the Turkic and Tungusic languages. Related languages include Kalmyk spoken near the Caspian Sea and Buryat of East Siberia, as well as a number of minor languages in China and the Moghol language of Afghanistan.
[edit] Geographic distribution
Darkhat is spoken in the Khövsgöl Province of northern Mongolia, around Lake Khövsgöl. Speakers of fully bilingual with the official Khalkha dialect of Mongolian.
