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The Western Yugur (Yellow Yugur) Language: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary
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4,600 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)

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The Western Yugurs and the Eastern Yugurs are both covered under the Yugurs nationality in China.

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2000

Location and Context

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Gansu Province, China

Coordinates

39.002, 99.502; 38.838, 99.618

Location description

spoken in Dahe (大河區) and Minghua (明花區) Districts of the western Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) , Gansu Province (甘肅省), China.

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spoken in Dahe (大河區) and Minghua (明花區) Districts of the western Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) , Gansu Province (甘肅省), China.

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Chinese; Tibetan; Eastern Yugur

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Chinese for official domains

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"A limited number of the Yugur living in Dahe District (大河區) of the western part of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) in Gansu (甘肅) Province are bilingual in both Western and Eastern Yugur. Most of the Yugur shift to Chinese which serves as a lingua franca as well as medium for school instruction. But in Minghai and Lianhua Townships of Minghua District (明花區), Western Yugur functions as the language of daily communication and is acquired by children as L1."

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2010

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39.2747,98.8439

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2,600

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6,000

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Speaker number (J. Zhong 1999). Ethnic population (D. Bradley 2000)

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2009

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China;

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2005

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38.75,99.75

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