Khorchin Mongolian

Khorchin
EthnicityKhorchin Mongols
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.

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