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YUGUR, WEST (China)

Family
Eastern-(Chagatay)-Turkic languages

Country
China

Language code
YBE

Continent
Asia

Alternate language names
SARYGH UYGUR, SARIG, YA LU, YELLOW UIGHUR, SARI YOGUR, YUKU, YUGU, SARY-UIGHUR

Genetic affiliation
Altaic, Turkic, Eastern

Geographical region
Sunan Yugur Autonomous County near Zhangye (Kanchow) in northwest Gansu Province

Population
6,150 speakers out of ethnic group of 12,297 (1990 census)

Remarks
An official nationality together with East Yugur, a Mongolian language. About one-third of the ethnic group speaks Chinese as first language. Written Chinese in use

Subsistence type
Animal husbandry

Grammar typology
SOV

Religion
Lamaist Buddhist, shamanism

Total speakers
6,150

 
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