Xibe
[别称 Sibe, Sibo, Xibo]语系:Tungusic
·易危
语系:Tungusic
·易危
A diaspora group (since 1763) of Manchu from Manchuria
信息不完整 “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge
many
Information here refers to members of Xibo nationality in Xinjiang Province (Northwest China). There are also members of the same nationality in Liaoning Province (Northeast China) for whom the language is long extinct.
Spoken in Qapqal County and various urban areas of Xinjiang Province in Northwest China.
Divergent variety of Manchu spoken by the descendants of a Manchu army sent to Xinjiang in 1764.
信息不完整 “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)
<20,000
There are also groups and individuals in Manchuria identifying themselves with the Sibe, rather than the Manchu nationality, raising the number of the total Sibe population in China close to 80,000; the linguistic background and geographical dimensions of this figure remain unclarified.
There are reports that the language is still being learnt by children, though apparently not in all families.
Kazakh
Uigur
Chinese
degree of speakers' competence: apparently mainly fluent, but with interference from Written Manchu, which is used as the literary language
in the Ili (Yili) region of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), within the Kazakh Autonomous District of the Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region