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Name: Qiang, Northern Type: Language Alternate Names: Qiang; Northern Qiang; Northern; Qiang; Southern; Ch'iang; Qiang,Northern Spoken in: China Number of speakers: 57,800 (1999), decreasing. 14,000 Mawo dialect, 14,000 Weigu dialect, 11,000 Luhua dialect, 8000 Cimulin dialect, and 9,000 Yadu dialect. 130,000 total for Northern and Southern Qiang languages, including 80,000 as Qiang nationality and 50,000 as Tibetan nationality (1990 J-O. Svantesson). Ethnic population: 306,072 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Code: cng Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Sino-Tibetan Parent Subgroup: Qiangic; Core North-eastern; core Qiangic; Xifan (qinc) Child Dialects: Weigu (cng-wei) Cimulin (cng-cim) Yadu (cng-yad) Luhua (cng-luh)