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Dictionaries, phrasebooks, apps and courses for learning, reading and writing Buryat.

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«Amar Mende» (Amar Mende)

An offline centre for studying the Buryat language in Ulan-Ude (not a diaspora project), useful for readers planning in-person study on-site.

CourseOffline

LanguageLive

«Amishaal» (application)

A mobile phrasebook application featuring a dictionary and tests for learning the Buryat language.

AppOpen access

LanguageLive

«Etigel»

A Buryat-Russian online dictionary from Buryat State University (BSU); an academic source.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

«Russian-Buryat Phrasebook» (Google Play)

A Russian-Buryat mobile phrasebook application, available on Google Play.

AppOpen access

LanguageLive

«Uulen» (Uulen)

A dictionary application (Android/iOS), winner of a grant competition, containing approximately 40,000 Buryat and 80,000 Russian words of the literary Buryat language.

DictionaryOpen access

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A magyar nyelv nagyszótára — article «burját»

Quotes from 1790–1999 regarding the history of the word «burját» in the Hungarian language — an etymological entry from the Great Dictionary of the Hungarian Language.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Aliviy

An online machine translator for Russian↔Buryat — an alternative to Webtran for quick draft translations.

TranslatorOpen access

LanguageLive

Bodol.ru

An online Buryat language school for beginners (grades 1–4, alphabet, rules).

CourseOpen access

LanguageLive

Burját nyelvkönyv — Altajisztikai Tankönyvtár 2 (Szeged, 2011)

The only Hungarian-language textbook for the Buryat language (2011), University of Szeged.

CourseOpen access

LanguagePartial access

Burjat nyelvkönyv — PDF mirror (unora.unior.it)

A direct PDF mirror of the same Hungarian textbook for the Buryat language (Szeged, 2011) in the repository of the University of Naples.

CourseOpen access

LanguageLive

A primary Russian-Buryat and Buryat-Russian online dictionary featuring a textbook, phrasebook, word of the day, and a Telegram bot — the most popular and active basic language resource (mirror of buryat-lang.ru).

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Buryads.com / t.bur.mn

A Russian-Buryat dictionary with thematic word packs, games, and quizzes; includes mobile applications (iOS/Android), a Chrome extension, keyboard layouts on GitHub, and the «Buryads» Discord server for translation crowdsourcing — an actively developing volunteer project.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Buryat Telegram interface

Official Telegram language pack in Buryat, translated by volunteers (2023–2024) — can be installed as the messenger interface; symbolically strengthens the presence of the language in the digital environment.

AppOpen access

LanguageLive

Freelang (Buryat dictionary)

The English-language dictionary resource Freelang featuring the Buryat language — one of the few dictionaries with English support for the English-speaking part of the diaspora.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Glosbe — new language pairs (tr./jp./kor./cs.)

Crowdsourced Glosbe Buryat dictionary pairs for Turkish, Japanese, Korean, and Czech — combined into a single entry to avoid format-related duplicates.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Glosbe (bua-en)

Buryat-English dictionary on the Glosbe platform — practically the only available dictionary bridge for the English-speaking diaspora audience.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Glosbe (Buryat-Russian)

Crowdsourced Buryat-Russian dictionary with usage examples and pronunciation.

DictionaryOpen access

LanguageLive

Instagram @buryatski_online

Instagram account featuring Buryat language lessons from teachers in Ulan-Ude.

CourseOpen access

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Regedu.ru

Regional educational platform containing materials for learning the Buryat language.

CourseOpen access

LanguageLive

Stepik: «Buryaadaraa khooreldee!» [Let's speak in Buryat!]

Free online Buryat language course on the Stepik platform.

CourseOpen access

LanguageLive

Talking Buryat Phrasebook (SRAS)

Audio phrasebook of the Buryat language from SRAS (School of Russian and Asian Studies) — reported as the only intelligible Buryat instructional material for an English-speaking audience.

CourseOpen access

LanguageLive