Endangered

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.

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