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Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

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Language Information By Source

East and Southeast Asia
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

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Ethnic Population

> 6,000

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Though East Yugur is Monglic, it is "officially linked with the Turkic-speaking Western Yugur in the Yugur nationality."

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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China

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Location description

Gansu (甘肅) Province

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Gansu (甘肅) Province

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Native Speakers Worldwide

3,000

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

39.1002,99.2065

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Native Speakers Worldwide

3,000

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Ethnic Population

6,000

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Speaker number (1999 Junast). Ethnic population (2000 D. Bradley).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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China;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,800 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)

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

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Gansu Province, China

Coordinates

38.780, 99.987; 38.859, 99.701; 39.277, 97.524; 38.999, 99.412

Location description

the eastern part of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣), specifically Hongshiwo (紅石窩) and Qinglong (青龍) Townships of Kangle District (康樂區), and Beitan (北灘) and Dongtan (東灘) Townships of Huangcheng District (皇城區), Gansu Province, China.

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the eastern part of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣), specifically Hongshiwo (紅石窩) and Qinglong (青龍) Townships of Kangle District (康樂區), and Beitan (北灘) and Dongtan (東灘) Townships of Huangcheng District (皇城區), Gansu Province, China.

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Other languages used

Chinese; Tibetan

Domains of other languages

Chinese in official domains

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"A limited number of the Yugur living in Huangcheng are bilingual in both Western and Eastern Yugur. A small number of Tibetans married into the Yugur community in Huangcheng District speak Tibetan and Eastern Yugur. Most of the Yugur shift to Chinese which serves as a lingua franca."

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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38.0,99.0

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