Also Known As:
New Barghut, Xin Baerhu, Menggu, 新巴爾虎土語
Dialects & Varieties
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Vulnerable
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<100,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 1
Most members of the community or ethnic group speak the language. Speaker numbers may be decreasing, but very slowly.
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Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
<100,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
Since children are educated in Standard Mongolian, there is a lot of variation as to how consistently any given individual will preserve New Bargut features in his native speech.
Location and Context
Countries
Inner Mongolia, China
Location Description
in the southwestern part of the Barga steppe region, within the Right and Left Xin Baerhu Banners of Hulun Buir Aimak, Inner Mongolia, China
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Mongolian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Recent Resources
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