Dungan | |
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Хуэйзў йүян 回族語言 خُوِزُو یُوِیًا | |
Pronunciation | [xwɛ̌jt͡sû ʝŷʝɛ̃̌] |
Native to | Central Asia |
Region | Chu Valley (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), Altai Krai, Saratov Oblast (Rovensky District) (Russia), Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan) |
Ethnicity | Dungan |
Native speakers | 145,000 (2009–2021)[1] |
Cyrillic (official) Chinese characters (obsolete) Xiao'erjing (obsolete) Latin (historical) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dng |
Glottolog | dung1253 |
ELP | Dungan |
Dungan language | |||||||||||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 東干語 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 东干语 | ||||||||||||||
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Dunganese name | |||||||||||||||
Dungan | Хуэйзў йүян | ||||||||||||||
Xiao'erjing | خُوِزُو یُوِیًا | ||||||||||||||
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 |
Dungan (/ˈdʊŋɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋɡən/) is a Sinitic language[2] spoken primarily in the Chu Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. It is the native language of the Dungan people, a Hui subgroup that fled Qing China in the 19th century. It evolved from the Central Plains Mandarin variety spoken in Gansu and Shaanxi. It is the only Sino-Tibetan language to be officially written in the Cyrillic script. In addition, the Dungan language contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin.