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Name:
Dungan
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Dzhunyan; Tungan; Huizu; Zwn'jan; Kwuizwu
Spoken in:
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
Number of speakers:
40,000 in Kyrgyzstan (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 42,200. Ethnic population: 100,000
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
41000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
41400
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
dng
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Sino-Tibetan
Parent Language:
Middle Chinese (ltc)
Child Dialects:
Yage (dng-yag)
Ganzu; Gansu (dng-gan)
Shaanxi; Shensi (dng-sha)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Dungan
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