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Dungan language

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…

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ELP
Dungan
Ethnicity
Dungan
Glottolog
dung1253
ISO 639-3
dng
Language family
SiniticChineseMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan · ChineseMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan · MandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan · Central Plains MandarinDungan · Dungan
Native speakers
145,000 (2009–2021)

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Dungan language

Nodes75
Edges74
Triples40
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026667
Components1

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Dungan language

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related to Phonology · 11
Dungan language → Chinese, Dungan, Gansu, Guanzhong, In, Lan-Yin Mandarin, Like, Mandarin Chinese, Shaanxi, There, Zhongyuan Mandarin
related to Geographical distribution · 9
Dungan language → According, Central Asia, Dungan, Dungans, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Soviet, Uzbekistan
Language family · 5
Dungan language → Central Plains MandarinDungan, ChineseMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan, Dungan, MandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan, SiniticChineseMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan
related to Grammar · 4
Dungan language → Dungan, In Kazakhstan, Russianizing, Soviet
related to Classifiers · 2
Dungan language → Chinese, Dungan
ELP · 1
Dungan language → Dungan
Ethnicity · 1
Dungan language → Dungan
Glottolog · 1
Dungan language → dung1253
ISO 639-3 · 1
Dungan language → dng
Native speakers · 1
Dungan language → 145,000 (2009–2021)

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dungan language chinese mandarin russian dialects kazakhstan gansu hui vocabulary kyrgyzstan shaanxi soviet china arabic speakers words standard people spoken

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dungan languageELPDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageEthnicityDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageGlottologdung12531.00infobox
Dungan languageISO 639-3dng1.00infobox
Dungan languageLanguage familySiniticChineseMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageLanguage familyChineseMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageLanguage familyMandarinCentral Plains MandarinDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageLanguage familyCentral Plains MandarinDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageLanguage familyDungan1.00infobox
Dungan languageNative speakers145,000 (2009–2021)1.00infobox
Dungan languageNative toCentral Asia1.00infobox
Dungan languagePronunciation.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-…1.00infobox
Dungan languageRegionChu Valley (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), Altai Krai, Saratov Oblast (Rovensky District) (Russia), Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan)1.00infobox
Dungan languageWriting systemDungan alphabets (Cyrillic, formerly Latin, Arabic and Chinese characters)1.00infobox

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