Buryat language - one of the Mongolian languages. Spoken in the Republic of Buryatia, Ust-Ordyn and Aginsk autonomic districts, in northern Mongolia and in the northwestern part of China. The number of the Buryats in Russia is 417,4 thousand. 86,6 % of them regard Buryat as their mother tongue, 13,3 % Russian.

From the end of the 17th century the Buryats used the Old Mongolian literary language. The Buryat literary language was created after the October revolution. A Latin-based alphabet was adopted in 1931, and in 1939 the language was switched into the Cyrillic script. The modern literary language is based on the Khorin dialect.

• Buryaad Respublika - Buryatian pages on the Buryat republic government web-server
• Buryat fonts and keyboard layouts
• Faculty of Buryat philology at the Buryat state university (information in Russian)