The material and spiritual culture of the Oirat-Mongolian nomads in the mirror of Sart-Kalmyk proverbs

Abstract

The article is devoted to the proverbs of the Sart-Kalmyks of Kyrgyzstan. It was in 1929 when A.C. Burdukov for the first time noted about the oral heritage of Sart-Kalmyks. Sart-Kalmyks, or Issyk-Kul, or Karakol Kalmyks (Kalmaks) are a small ethnic group of Oirat origin, practicing Islam. The ancestors of the Sart-Kalmyks came from the Xinjiang. The source base for the article was the personal field materials of the authors collected during the 2009–2021 scientific expeditions.

Keywords

• sart-kalmyks
• kyrgyzstan
• volga kalmyks
• xinjiang oirat mongols
• proverb
• field materials of the authors