Zaya Pandita (English)

Japanese: Zaya Pandita(英語表記)ZayaPandita
Zaya Pandita (English)

...The Oirat language is further divided into (1) the Kalmyk dialect (also called Kalmyk) and (2) other Oirat subdialects, namely, the Drubod and Bayt dialects in the Kobt region, the Turgut, Uryankha, Zakhatin, and Mingat dialects in the Altai region, and the Orot dialect in Dambi. The Oirat people wrote their language in the Todo script (meaning "clear" script, a slightly improved Mongolian script) invented in 1648 by the Khoshut monk Zaya Pandita, and this script is still used by the Oirat people living in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. Since 1924 (the Latin script was also used for a time from 1931 to 1938), Kalmyk has been written in a script that is a slightly modified version of the Russian script. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Zaya Pandita" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…オイラート語はさらに,(1)カルムイク方言(カルムイク語ともいう)と,(2)その他のオイラート下位方言,すなわちコブト地域のドルボド方言とバイト方言,アルタイ地域のトゥルグート,ウリヤンハ,ザハチン,ミンガトの諸方言,ダムビのオロート方言などに分かれる。オイラート人は,古く1648年にホシュート族の高僧ザヤ・パンディタZaya Panditaによって創案されたトドTodo文字(〈明白な〉文字の意で,蒙古文字(モンゴル文字)に若干の改良を施したもの)をもって自己の言語を書写してきたが,これが,いわゆるオイラート文語であり,この文字は現在でも中国の新疆ウイグル自治区に住むオイラート人によって用いられている。また,カルムイク語は1924年以後(1931年から38年にかけては,一時ラテン文字も用いられたことがある),ロシア文字に幾分の変更を加えた文字によって書写されている。…

※「Zaya Pandita」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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