30600 Ordos "The current number of Ordos speakers is unknown, since the Ordos Mongols are not distinguished from the rest of the Monggol nationality in official Chinese censuses. A field survey made in the mid-1950s (Todaeva) established, however, a figure of approximately 64,000 Ordos Mongols. The present population must be larger, though linguistic assimilation (by both Chinese and Mongol proper) may have reduced the percentage of native language speakers. A possible estimate for the present day might, then, be less than 100,000 speakers." Ordos Off