Also Known As:
Old Barghut, Chen Baerhu, Menggu, 陳巴爾虎土語
Dialects & Varieties
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Threatened
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
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Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
<50,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
Since children are educated in Standard Mongolian, there is a lot of variation as to how consistently any given individual will preserve Old Bargut features in his native speech; currently, a mixed variety of speech seems to be emerging, which may be classified as a dialect of Mongolian proper.
Location and Context
Countries
Inner Mongolia, China
Location Description
in the northern part of the Barga steppe region, within the Chen Baerhu Banner of Hulun Buir Aimak
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Mongolian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Recent Resources
Message informatif
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