Xibe
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Tungusic language spoken by members of the Xibe ethnic group in Xinjiang, China
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ɕivə kisun ]
- Native to
- China
- Region
- Xinjiang
- Ethnicity
- 189,000 Sibe people (2000)
- Native speakers
- (30,000 cited 2000)
- Language family
- Tungusic Southern Jurchenic Manchu –Xibe Xibe
- Writing system
- Sibe alphabet (variant of the Manchu alphabet )
- Iso 639 3
- sjo
- Glottolog
- xibe1242
- Elp
- Xibe
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Encyclopedic overview
The Xibe language (Xibe: ᠰᡞᠪᡝ ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ, romanized: sibe gisun, also Sibo, Sibe) is a Tungusic language spoken by members of the Sibe minority of Xinjiang, in Northwest China. With over 30 thousand speakers, it is the most widely spoken Tungusic language, accounting for over half of all speakers of Tungusic languages.
Classification
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