Dongxiang language

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Dongxiang
Santa
Spoken in: China 
Region: Gansu province, mainly in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, and Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Total speakers: 250,000
Language family: Altaic[1] (controversial)
 Mongolic
  Eastern
   Mongour
    Dongxiang
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: tut
ISO 639-3: sce

Dongxiang is a Mongolic language spoken by the Dongxiang people of northwestern China.

Contents

[edit] Phonology

[edit] References

  1. ^ "[1] Ethnologue"

[edit] Further Reading

  • Kenneth Lynn Field. 1997. "A grammatical overview of Santa Mongolian," University of California, Santa Barbara PhD dissertation.

[edit] External links