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4,000

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Wutun
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000

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Speakers are classified in the Tu Nationality. The Wutun-speaking villages are linguistically vigorous, so the village population number corresponds closely with the number of speakers.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

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China

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Government support

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Speakers’s attitudes

because of dominant role of Tibetan culture, many Wutun speakers consider their language a local dialect of Tibetan

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Script (Writing system)

none

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Other languages used

Amdo Tibetan; Mandarin Chinese

Domains of other languages

Tibetan in lower-grade schools and local government; Mandarin in other schools, and with Chinese traders

More on context

The Rekong dialect of Amdo Tibetan is the local lingua franca. Children acquire some knowledge of Tibetan early in childhood, strengthened over the years through everyday contact and formal studies.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

35.791,102.4365

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000

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Year of info

2004

Location and Context

Countries

northeastern Tibet

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,000

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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China

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2,000

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    Acuo, Yeshes Vodgsal. 2004. ""Documentation and Comparative Study of Two Endangered Languages in Tibet: Wutunhua, Daohua" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=40.
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  7. Probe on a Writing System of Wutunhua
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    Gerald Roche and Hiroyuki Suzuki. (2017). Tibet's minority languages: Diversity and endangerment. Modern Asian Studies.
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