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Dungan
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divergent variety of Central Plains Mandarin spoken in Central Asia
Dungan is a variety of Mandarin Chinese that developed among communities in Central Asia and differs noticeably from the Mandarin spoken in China's Central Plains region. It matters because it represents a distinct linguistic branch that reflects the unique history and cultural development of Chinese-speaking populations outside of mainland China.
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Key facts
- 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)
- Language family
- Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Mandarin Central Plains Mandarin Dungan
- Writing system
- Cyrillic (official), Chinese characters (obsolete), Xiao'erjing (obsolete), Latin (historical)
- Iso 639 3
- dng
- Glottolog
- dung1253
- Elp
- Dungan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- varieties of Chinese
- Subclass of
- Central Plains Mandarin
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
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- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 41400
- topic's main category
- Category:Dungan language
- indigenous to
- Jambyl Region
- Commons category
- Dungan language
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Encyclopedic overview
Dunganese name DunganХуэйзў йүян Xiao'erjingخُوِزُو یُوِیًا Hanzi回族語言 (Huízú yǔyán; Hui-tsu yü-yen) Uyghur name Uyghur تۇڭگان تىلى Russian name RussianДунганский язык RomanizationDunganskij jazyk Kyrgyz name KyrgyzДунган тили دۇنعان تىلى Dungan tili Kazakh name KazakhДүнген тілі دۇنگەن تىلى Düngen tılı
Dungan (/ˈdʊŋ.ɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋ.ɡən/) is a Sinitic language 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 varieties 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.
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