The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: DNG
ISO 639-2: sit
| Population | 38,000 in Kyrgyzstan (1993 Johnstone). Mother tongue speakers were 95% out of an ethnic population of 52,000 in the former USSR (1979 census). Population total all countries 49,400 out of an ethnic population of 100,000. |
| Region | The Gansu dialect is mainly in Prschewalsk and Osh, Kyrgyzstan, the Shaanxi dialect in Kazakhstan, and in Fergana, Uzbekistan. Also spoken in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. |
| Alternate names | DZHUNYAN, TUNGAN, HUIZU, ZWN'JAN, KWUIZWU |
| Dialects | GANSU, SHAANXI (SHENSI), YAGE. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese. |
| Comments | Dungan has three tones (Standard Mandarin tones 1 and 2 are merged), but they are not indicated in writing. Also different from Mandarin in phonology and lexicon. Bilingualism in Russian. Those under 50 to 55 are reported to speak Russian as mother tongue. The people call themselves 'Huizu.' Cyrillic script. Sunni Muslim. |
