Bulletin of BSU. Language. Literature. Culture
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WRITTEN HERITAGE OF THE BURYATS IN THE OLD MONGOLIAN SCRIPT // Bulletin of BSU. Language. Literature. Culture. - 2020. №3. . - С. 15-23.
Title:
WRITTEN HERITAGE OF THE BURYATS IN THE OLD MONGOLIAN SCRIPT
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The article explores the written heritage of the Buryats in the Old Mongolian
script, which for a long time was a common Mongolian literary language, starting from
the 12th century. The Buryats have been used it as a written literary language since the
17th century until 1936. There were created unique compositions of different genres in
the Mongolian script. In addition, the paperwork was carried out and newspapers and
magazines were published in this script. The genre of historical chronicles is the most
developed. The tradition of chronicle writing among the Buryats was continued in the
20th century. A previously unexplored anonymous written monument of the 1920s the
“Atsagat essay on the Khori-Buryats” is described. This essay, based on the combination
of the traditions of Mongolian chronicles and Russian historical science, with elements of
Buryat folklore, ethnography, eyewitness memories, the author's own observations, is a
synthesis of genres of historical, literary, memoir nature. The change in writing in subsequent years led to the complete oblivion of both the authors and the monuments themselves. Meanwhile, these written sources, being a reflection of the linguistic picture of
the Mongolian world, are of great interest to historians, philologists, and culturologists.
script, which for a long time was a common Mongolian literary language, starting from
the 12th century. The Buryats have been used it as a written literary language since the
17th century until 1936. There were created unique compositions of different genres in
the Mongolian script. In addition, the paperwork was carried out and newspapers and
magazines were published in this script. The genre of historical chronicles is the most
developed. The tradition of chronicle writing among the Buryats was continued in the
20th century. A previously unexplored anonymous written monument of the 1920s the
“Atsagat essay on the Khori-Buryats” is described. This essay, based on the combination
of the traditions of Mongolian chronicles and Russian historical science, with elements of
Buryat folklore, ethnography, eyewitness memories, the author's own observations, is a
synthesis of genres of historical, literary, memoir nature. The change in writing in subsequent years led to the complete oblivion of both the authors and the monuments themselves. Meanwhile, these written sources, being a reflection of the linguistic picture of
the Mongolian world, are of great interest to historians, philologists, and culturologists.
Keywords:
the Old Mongolian script; written monuments of the Buryats; the Buryat chronicles; anonymous written monument “Atsagat essay on the Khori-Buryats”.
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