| has URI | http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/xal |
| has gloss | eng: The Kalmyk language (Хальмг келн; also known as Kalmuck, Qalmaq, Khal:mag and Western Mongol) is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. It is the most prominent dialect of the Oirat language, which belongs to the western branch of the Mongolic language family. The Oirat people are scattered throughout Eurasia, with substantial groups located in western Mongolia, the northwest region (mainly Xinjiang) of the People’s Republic of China and the northwest coast of the Caspian Sea in the Russian Federation, where they became known as Kalmyks. |
| has gloss | eng: Torgut (also known as Torghut or Torghud) is a dialect of the Oirat language spoken in Xinjiang, in western Mongolia and in eastern Kalmykia (where it was the basis for Kalmyk, the literary standard language of that region ).Thus, it has more speakers than any other variety of Oirat. It is better researched than any other Oirat variety spoken in China. |
| lexicalization | eng: Torgut dialect |
| subclass of | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oirat_language |
| subclass of | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Oirat_language |
| subclass of | e/Eastern Mongolic languages |
| subclass of | e/Oirat language |
| instance of | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Eastern_Mongolic_languages |
| instance of | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Oirat_language |
| instance of | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Eastern_Mongolic_languages |
| instance of | http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Oirat_language |