Dungan

The Dungan language is spoken by 40,000 people in Kyrgyzstan (based on Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). The total population in all countries is 6 million. The ethnic population is 100,000. Gansu is mainly spoken in Prschewalsk and Osh; Shaanxi in Kazakhstan, and Fergana, Uzbekistan, also in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation (Asia), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Read more about this language on UNESCO Atlas of the world's languages in Danger

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Capital: Nur-Sultan
Region: Asia and the Pacific

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