Buryat Language as a National Treasure: On the Results of the International Scientific Conference

Scientific Article
UDC 81

DOI 10.3792/3033-6015-2025-100-107

THE BURYAT LANGUAGE AS A NATIONAL HERITAGE:
ON THE RESULTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Badmaeva Larisa Batoevna – Doctor of Philology, Leading Researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia). ORCID: 0000-0001-7238-366X. E-mail: lorabadm@mail.ru.

The article presents the results of the International Scientific Conference “The Buryat Language as a National Heritage”, dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of one of the leading Russian Mongolian scholars, Doctor of Philology, Professor L. D. Shagdarov (1930–2022) and the 150th anniversary of the creation of the chronicle by Vandan Yumsunov “Qori-yin arban nigen ečige-yin ǰon-u uγ iǰaγur-un tuγuǰi” – ‘The History of the Origin of the People of the Eleven Khorin Clans’ (1875) (Ulan-Ude, September 18–19, 2025). L. D. Shagdarov is the author of over 200 research works on various aspects of Buryat linguistics. The article also highlights another aspect of L. D. Shagdarov’s scientific activity as a researcher of written monuments of the Mongolian peoples.
Keywords: Buryat language, Mongolian script, Lubsan Dorzhievich Shagdarov, written monuments, Buryat chronicles, Vandan Yumsunov.

 

THE BURYAT LANGUAGE AS A NATIONAL HERITAGE:
ON THE RESULTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Badmaeva Larisa Batoevna – Sc. Doctor of Philology, Leading Researcher of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia). ORCID: 0000-0001-7238-366X. E-mail: lorabadm@mail.ru.

The article presents the results of the International Scientific Conference “The Buryat Language as a National Heritage”, dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the birth of one of the leading Russian Mongolian scholars, Doctor of Philology, Professor L. D. Shagdarov (1930–2022) and the 150th anniversary of the creation of the chronicle by Vandan Yumsunov “Qori-yin arban nigen ečige-yin ǰon-u uγ iǰaγur-un tuγuǰi” – ‘The History of the Origin of the People of the Eleven Khorin Clans’ (1875) (Ulan-Ude, September 18–19, 2025). L. D. Shagdarov is the author of over 200 research works on various aspects of Buryat linguistics. This article also highlights another aspect of L. D. Shagdarovʼs research as a scholar of the written monuments of the Mongolian peoples.
Keywords: Buryat language, Mongolian script, Lubsan Dorzhievich Shagdarov, written monuments, Buryat chro-nicles, Vandan Yumsunov.