Also Known As:
Sibe, Sibo, Xibo, Xibe, Sibin, Colloquial Manchu, 錫伯語
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
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<10,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 3
Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.
3
Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
1
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
<20,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: apparently mainly fluent, but with interference from Written Manchu, which is used as the literary language
Location and Context
Countries
China
Location Description
in the Ili (Yili) region of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), within the Kazakh Autonomous District of the Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Kazakh, Uigur, Chinese
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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Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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Recent Resources
He Wenjun, a teacher and Xibe language translator, sings a popular folk song, “Xiao Qiao Cried for Z