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~27,000

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~27,000

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Information here refers to members of Xibo nationality in Xinjiang Province (Northwest China). There are also members of the same nationality in Liaoning Province (Northeast China) for whom the language is long extinct.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Qapqal County, Xinjiang Province, China

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Spoken in Qapqal County and various urban areas of Xinjiang Province in Northwest China.

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Spoken in Qapqal County and various urban areas of Xinjiang Province in Northwest China.

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27,000

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2010

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43.6599,81.3427

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Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000

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Ethnic Population

188,824

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Speaker number data: (J. An 2000). Few monolinguals. Ethnic population data: 2000 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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China

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Native Speakers Worldwide

<10,000

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<20,000

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There are also groups and individuals in Manchuria identifying themselves with the Sibe, rather than the Manchu nationality, raising the number of the total Sibe population in China close to 80,000; the linguistic background and geographical dimensions of this figure remain unclarified.

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

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China

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in the Ili (Yili) region of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), within the Kazakh Autonomous District of the Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region

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in the Ili (Yili) region of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), within the Kazakh Autonomous District of the Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region

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Kazakh, Uigur, Chinese

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degree of speakers' competence: apparently mainly fluent, but with interference from Written Manchu, which is used as the literary language

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  1. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  2. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
    Moseley, Christopher. 2007. Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, 1 edn. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 070071197X
  3. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  4. UNESCO 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
    http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
  5. 錫伯語赫哲語鄂塭克語鄂倫春語研究 [A study of Sibe, Nanai, Evenki, and Oroqen
    Tang, Ge 唐戈. 2008. 錫伯語赫哲語鄂塭克語鄂倫春語研究 [A study of Sibe, Nanai, Evenki, and Oroqen]. Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House 民族出版社.
  6. 錫伯語語法研究 Sibe grammar
    Jang, Taeho 張泰鎬. 2008. 錫伯語語法研究 Sibe grammar. Kunming, China: 雲南民族出版社 The Nationalities Publishing House of Yunnan.