Darkhad language
| Darkhad | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Mongolia | |
| Region: | Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia | |
| Total speakers: | 20,350 | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] Mongolic Eastern Oirat-Khalkha Oirat-Kalmyk-Darkhat Darkhad |
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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. | ||
Darkhad is a dialect of the Mongolian language and the primary language of most of the residents west of Lake Khövsgöl.
Classification
Darkhad 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
Geographic distribution
Darkhad is spoken in the north-west of Khövsgöl Province of northern Mongolia. Speakers are fully bilingual with the official Khalkha dialect of Mongolian.
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