ISO 639-3 · dngdng
Sino-Tibetan family
Dungan
Dungan is a language of the Sino-Tibetan branch, spoken in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Wikidata counts about 41,400 speakers (2001). Wikidata describes it as “divergent variety of Central Plains Mandarin spoken in Central Asia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
dng- Glottocode
dung1253- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- EGIDS
- 7 Shifting
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 55 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
1levels in the tree
7EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Dungan |
|---|---|
| Also called | Dungan language |
| All speakers | 41,400 (2001) |
| Written in | Cyrillic |
Vitality
EGIDS 7 Shifting7
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Sino-Tibetan to Dungan
The branches above Dungan, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
289Sino-TibetanfamilydngDunganlanguage
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Kazakhstan
rusRussianIndo-European · 110 m1 · NationalazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeukrUkrainianIndo-European · 34.7 m1 · NationaltgkTajikunclassified · 14 m1 · NationalkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationaluigUyghurEastern Karluk · 10.4 m2 · ProvincialcheChechenNortheast Caucasian · 1.4 m2 · ProvincialbakBashkirTurkic · 1.2 m2 · ProvincialpntPontic GreekIndo-European · 778,0006a · VigorouschvChuvashTurkic · 738,0702 · Provincial