Also Known As:
Khamnigan, Kamnigan, Hamunikan, Xamnigan, 哈姆尼堪, 汗尼幹蒙古語, хамниганский язык
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
Threatened
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~1500
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
~1600
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"used as the community language at the oral level by all speakers, with Modern Written Mongolian as the literary language; grammatical and lexical interference from the latter is occasionally present in the speech of educated individuals"
Location and Context
Countries
Russia; China; Mongolia
Location Description
the Onon-Argun region of Transbaikalia
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Khamnigan Mongol; Khamnigan Evenki; Standard Mongolian; Russian; Chinese
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Modern Written Mongolian
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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Recent Resources
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