| Dungan | |
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| Хуэйзў йүян 回族語言 خُوِزُو یُوِیًا | |
| Pronunciation | [xwɛ̌jt͡sû ʝŷʝɛ̃̌] |
| Native to | Central Asia |
| Region | Chu Valley (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), Altai Krai, Saratov Oblast (Rovensky District) (Russia), Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan) |
| Ethnicity | Dungan |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2009 censuses)[1] |
| Cyrillic (official) Chinese characters (obsolete) Xiao'erjing (obsolete) Latin (historical) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dng |
| Glottolog | dung1253 |
| ELP | Dungan |
| Dungan language | |||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 東干語 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东干语 | ||||||||||||||
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| Dunganese name | |||||||||||||||
| Dungan | Хуэйзў йүян | ||||||||||||||
| Xiao'erjing | خُوِزُو یُوِیًا | ||||||||||||||
| Hanzi | 回族語言 (Huízú yǔyán; Hui2-tsu2 yü3-yen2) | ||||||||||||||
| Russian name | |||||||||||||||
| Russian | Дунганский язык | ||||||||||||||
| Romanization | Dunganskij jazyk | ||||||||||||||
| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | Дунган тили دۇنعان تىلى Dungan tili | ||||||||||||||
| Kazakh name | |||||||||||||||
| Kazakh | Дүнген тілі دۇنگەن تىلى Düngen tılı | ||||||||||||||
Dungan (/ˈdʊŋɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋɡən/) is a Sinitic language[2] spoken primarily in the Chu Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. It is the native language of the Dungan people, a Hui subgroup that fled Qing China in the 19th century. It evolved from the Central Plains Mandarin variety spoken in Gansu and Shaanxi. It is the only Sino-Tibetan language to be officially written in the Cyrillic script. In addition, the Dungan language contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin.