Dungan
A language of Kyrgyzstan
| Population | 40,000 in Kyrgyzstan (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 42,200. Ethnic population: 100,000. |
| Region | Gansu mainly in Prschewalsk and Osh; Shaanxi in Kazakhstan, and Fergana, Uzbekistan. Also in Kazakhstan, Russian Federation (Asia), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. |
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Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan |
| Alternate names | Dzhunyan, Kwuizwu, Tungan, Zwn’jan |
| Dialects | Ganzu (Gansu), Shaanxi (Shensi), Yage. Shaanxi and Ganzu varieties have difficult mutual inherent intelligibility. Debate over whether Dungan has 3 tones (a merging of 2 Standard Mandarin tones) or 4 tones (with only a partial merging of the 2 Standard Mandarin tones). Different from Mandarin in phonology and lexicon. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese |
| Language use | Those under 50 to 55 speak Russian as L1. |
| Language development | Bible portions: 2006. |
| Writing system | Cyrillic script. |
| Comments | They came from China over 100 years ago. Muslim (Sunni). |
Also spoken in:
Kazakhstan
| Language name | Dungan |
| Language map |
Kazakhstan |
| Dialects | Shaanxi. |
| Comments | Came from China over 100 years ago. |
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