Endangered Languages Project - Dongxiang

Dongxiang

^{[aka Santa, Tunghsiang, Tung]}

Classification: Mongolic

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Santa, Tunghsiang, Tung, Dunshan, Tsung-hsiang, 東鄉語
CLASSIFICATION		Mongolic, Shirongolic, Southern Shirongolic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sce
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Suonanba Sijiaji Wangjiaji
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
513,805

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "This language is losing ground to Chinese more rapidly than nearby Monguor (Tu). Potentially endangered."

PLACES: China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Northwestern Gansu (甘肅)

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
360,000
Native speakers worldwide

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250,000
Native speakers worldwide

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
373,872
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Junast (1999). "80,000 monolinguals. Half in the Suonanba dialect." Data for the ethnic population is from the 1990 census.

PLACES: China

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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COORDINATES

35.5411,102.7935

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press