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Native Speakers Worldwide

70,000

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A Grammar of Maonan
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

70,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

60%

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Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

China

Coordinates

24.825664, 108.258028

Location description

Northwest Guangxi Province: Huanjiang, Hechi, Nandan Tian'e, Du'an, Yishan, Luocheng and Rong'an. Huangjiang is the most concentrated area.

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Other writing systems

Northwest Guangxi Province: Huanjiang, Hechi, Nandan Tian'e, Du'an, Yishan, Luocheng and Rong'an. Huangjiang is the most concentrated area.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Zhuang; Mandarin Chinese

Domains of other languages

market, school, business, government

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

24.8341,107.577

Location description

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Ethnic Population

107,166

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Very few speakers in the ethnic group

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Guangxi Province, China

Coordinates

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Location description

Huanjiang County and surrounding areas, north central Guangxi Province

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Huanjiang County and surrounding areas, north central Guangxi Province

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More on context

This is a separate recognized nationality.

Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

30,000

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Ethnic Population

107,166

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"A few thousand women and children monolinguals." Data for the ethnic population is from the 2000 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

China

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

20,000

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    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. East and Southeast Asia
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    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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    http://www.oralliterature.org
  6. A Grammar of Maonan
    Tian Qiao Lu. 2008. "A Grammar of Maonan." Universal Publishers.