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East and Southeast Asia
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Native Speakers Worldwide

200,000

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Ethnic Population

513,805

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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China

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Location description

Northwestern Gansu (甘肅)

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Northwestern Gansu (甘肅)

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Mandarin

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"This language is losing ground to Chinese more rapidly than nearby Monguor (Tu). Potentially endangered."

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Native Speakers Worldwide

360,000

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Year of info

2010

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35.5411,102.7935

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Native Speakers Worldwide

250,000

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Ethnic Population

373,872

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from Junast (1999). "80,000 monolinguals. Half in the Suonanba dialect." Data for the ethnic population is from the 1990 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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China

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Year of info

2005

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Coordinates

31.5,107.5

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Native Speakers Worldwide

250,000

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