Xibe
Sibe; Sibo; Xibo; Xibe; Sibin; Colloquial Manchu; 錫伯語
Tungusic; Southern Tungusic; Jurchenic
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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.
2007
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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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Speaker number data: (J. An 2000). Few monolinguals. Ethnic population data: 2000 census.
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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.
2000
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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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- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, 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
- 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/
- UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIAJuha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.htmlhttp://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
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