Dungan language
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Dungan (/ˈdʊŋɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋɡən/) is a Sinitic language[note 1][2] spoken primarily in Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan by the Dungan people, an ethnic group related to the Hui people of China. Although it is derived from the Central Plains Mandarin of Gansu and Shaanxi, it is written in Cyrillic (or Xiao'erjing) and contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin.
Quick Facts Pronunciation, Native to ...
Dungan | |
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Хуэйзў йүян 回族語言 خُوِزُو یُوِیًا Hueizû yüyan | |
Pronunciation | [xwɛ̌jt͡sû ʝŷjɛ̃̌] |
Native to | Central Asia |
Region | Altai Republic (Russia), Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan), Chu Valley (Kazakhstan) |
Ethnicity | Dungan |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2009 censuses)[1] |
Cyrillic (official) Chinese characters (obsolete) Xiao'erjing (obsolete) Latin (historical) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dng |
Glottolog | dung1253 |
ELP | Dungan |
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Quick Facts Chinese name, Traditional Chinese ...
Dungan language | |||||||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 東幹語 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 东干语 | ||||||||||||||
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Dunganese name | |||||||||||||||
Dungan | Хуэйзў йүян | ||||||||||||||
Xiao'erjing | خُوِزُو یُوِیًا | ||||||||||||||
Romanization | Hueizû yüyan | ||||||||||||||
Hanzi | 回族語言 (Huízú yǔyán; Hui2-tsu2 yü3-yen2) | ||||||||||||||
Russian name | |||||||||||||||
Russian | Дунганский язык | ||||||||||||||
Romanization | Dunganskij jazyk | ||||||||||||||
Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||||||
Kyrgyz | Дунган тили دۇنعان تىلى Dungan tili | ||||||||||||||
Kazakh name | |||||||||||||||
Kazakh | Дүнген тілі دۇنگەن تىلى Düngen tılı | ||||||||||||||
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