Khorchin Mongolian

Khorchin
Khorchin
Ethnicity	Khorchin Mongols
Language family	Mongolic Central Mongolic Buryat–Mongolian Mongolian Peripheral Mongolian Khorchin; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

The Khorchin (Mongolian ᠬᠣᠷᠴᠢᠨ Qorčin, Chinese 科尔沁 Kē'ěrqìn) dialect is a variety of Mongolian spoken in the east of Inner Mongolia, namely in Hinggan League, in the north, north-east and east of Hinggan and in all but the south of the Tongliao region.^[1] There were 2.08 million Khorchin Mongols in China in 2000,^[2] so the Khorchin dialect may well have more than one million speakers, making it the largest dialect of Inner Mongolia.

^ Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 565
^ Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 317

[1] Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 565

[2] Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 317

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