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The first dictionary of the Buryat language can rightly be considered to be the Russian-Mongolian-Buryat Dictionary by I.A. Podgorbunsky [Podgorbunsky, 1909], published in Irkutsk.
In his dictionary, the author used a writing system he developed for the Buryat language, based on the Russian alphabet (Cyrillic) with the addition of letters with diacritical marks. In his dictionary, the author used a writing system he developed for the Buryat language, based on the Russian alphabet (Cyrillic) with the addition of letters with diacritical marks to denote specific sounds of the language
Podgorbunsky Innokenty Aleksandrovich (1862-1913) ? a priest, missionary, teacher of the Buryat and Mongolian languages ??at the Irkutsk Theological Seminary, Mongolian scholar, translator, researcher of Buryat Buddhism, shamanism, folklore and the colloquial language of Mongolian people, editor of Irkutsk Diocesan Gazette, photographer.
The focus of the researcher was the religious beliefs of the Mongolian peoples ?…
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