Shirongol | |
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Geographic distribution | Central China |
Linguistic classification | Mongolic
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Glottolog | shir1260 |
The Shirongol or Shirongolic languages are a branch of the Mongolic language family spoken in the Gansu and Qinghai provinces of China. The largest Shirongol language is Dongxiang, having approximately 200,000 speakers.[1] They have been heavily influenced by neighboring languages,[2] most significantly Mandarin Chinese, and now some Shirongol peoples speak the Tangwang language, a mixed language based on Mandarin and Dongxiang.
Internal classification
[edit]The Shirongol languages include the Bonan, Dongxiang, Kangjia and Monguor languages. Glottolog separates the Mongghuer and Mongghul dialects into two distinct languages and proposes the groupings Baoanic and Monguoric.[3] The dialects are indicated in italic.
- Shirongol languages
Ethnologue does not use this grouping. Instead, it groups the Southern Mongolic languages together in a "Mongour" group.[6]
- Mongour languages
- Bonan [peh]
- Dongxiang [sce]
- Kangjia [kxs]
- Tu [mjg]
- Eastern Yugur [yuy]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dongxiang". Ethnologue.
- ^ Juha Janhunen (2003). Routledge (ed.). The Mongolic languages. London.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Glottolog 4.6 - Shirongol". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ Lee-Smith, Mei W.; Wurm, Stephen A. (1996), p. 883
- ^ Wurm, S. A. (1995). "The Silk Road and Hybridized Languages in North-Western China". Diogenes. 43 (171): 53–62. doi:10.1177/039219219504317107. S2CID 144488386.
- ^ "Mongour". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2022-10-09.