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East and Southeast Asia
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000

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Ethnic Population

207,352

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Year of info

2007

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Guangxi Province, China

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Mainly Luocheng County, north central Guangxi Province

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Mainly Luocheng County, north central Guangxi Province

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One of China’s 55 recognised nationalities; distinct from the Kadai group Mulao, written with a different first character, but a few Kadai Mulao speakers have been included in the Mulam/Mulao nationality.

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30,000

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Year of info

2010

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24.6341,108.2895

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Native Speakers Worldwide

86,000

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Ethnic Population

210,000

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"Fewer than 10,000 monolinguals (including women and preschool children)." Data for the number of native speakers comes from Guangxi Language and Orthography Use Situation (2005). Data for the ethnic population is from the 2000 census.

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2009

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China;

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2005

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25.0,108.0

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. East and Southeast Asia
    Bradley, David. 2007. "East and Southeast Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 349-424. London & New York: Routledge.
  5. 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/
  6. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  7. An Outline Grammar of Mulao
    Wang Jun and Zheng Guoqiao. 1993. "An Outline Grammar of Mulao." Canberra: National Thai Studies Centre, The Australian National University.
  8. 仫佬語簡志 [A sketch grammar of Mulao]
    Wang, Jun 王均, and Guoqiao Zheng 鄭國喬. 1980. 仫佬語簡志 [A sketch grammar of Mulao]. Beijing: The Ethnic Publishing House 民族出版社.
  9. 銀村仫佬語參考語法 A reference grammar of Yincun Mulam
    Yin, Shage 銀莎格. 2014. 銀村仫佬語參考語法 A reference grammar of Yincun Mulam. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press 中國社會科學出版社.