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Name: Qiang, Southern Type: Language Alternate Names: Qiang; Southern Qiang; Northern; Qiang; Southern; Ch'iang; Qiang,Southern Spoken in: China Number of speakers: 81,300 (1999 J. Evans), decreasing. No monolinguals. 8,300 Daqishan dialect, 4,100 Taoping dialect, 3,100 Longxi dialect, 14,500 Mianchi dialect, 31,000 Hehu dialect. Around 130,000 total for Northern and Southern Qiang. 80,000 classified as Qiang nationality and 50,000 classified as Tibetan nationality (1990 J-O. Svantesson) (Ethnologue) Code: qxs Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Sino-Tibetan Parent Subgroup: Qiangic; Core North-eastern; core Qiangic; Xifan (qinc) Child Dialects: Mianchi (qxs-mia) Sanlong (qxs-san) Taoping (qxs-tao) Dajishan; Daqishan (qxs-daj) Heihu (qxs-hei) Jiaochang (qxs-jia) Longxi (qxs-lon)