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Name: Kalmyk-Oirat Type: Language Alternate Names: Kalmyk; Kalmuk; Kalmuck; Kalmack; Qalmaq; Kalmytskii Jazyk; Khal:mag; Oirat; Volga Oirat; European Oirat; Western Mongolian; Weilate; Xinjiang Mongolian; Western Mongol; Oiratisch; Kalmückisch; Western Mongul; West Mongolian; Xal'maq; Calmucki Spoken in: Mongolia, USA, Kyrgyzstan, China, Germany, Taiwan, Russia Number of speakers: 154,000 in Russian Federation (2002). Population total all countries: 499,000. Ethnic population: 173,996 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 433602 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 518500 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: xal Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Mongolian Parent Subgroup: Oirat-Kalmyk-Darkhat; Oirat-Kalmyk (oikd) Child Dialects: Buzawa; Derbet of the Don (xal-buz) Dörböt; Dörböd; Derbet; Dorbot; Derbet of Kobdo (xal-drb) Oirat; Oirat of Kobdo (xal-oir) Sart Qalmaq (xal-sar) Torgut; Torguut; Torguud; Torghud; Torghoud; Altai-Torgut (xal-tor)

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed