1. The Altaic family is divided into three groups, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic

2. What does Altaic mean? A putative language family of Eurasia including Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic

3. Buriat (Buryat, Buriad) is a Northern Mongolic language spoken by fewer than 400,000 people in Russia (Buryatia), Mongolia, and Inner Mongolia (Skribnik 2003)