A member of the Buriat people, a Mongolic ethnic group native to Siberia and Mongolia.
From Buriat, the self-designation of this Mongolic people, possibly derived from Mongolian roots meaning 'wolf' or related to early tribal names. The term entered English through Russian contact with Siberian peoples.
The Buriats maintained a unique blend of Mongolian heritage and Siberian shamanism for centuries, and their language is actually more closely related to Mongolian than it is to Russian, even though they lived under Russian rule for hundreds of years.
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