- a member of any of a group of Buddhistic Mongol tribes of a region extending from western China to the valley of the lower Volga River.
- a Mongolian language used by the part of the Kalmuck people that was formerly powerful in northwest China, specifically in Dzungaria, and now live northwest of the Caspian Sea.
- a member of a Mongoloid people of Buddhist tradition, who migrated from W China in the 17th century
- the language of this people, belonging to the Mongolic branch of the Altaic family
