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ALSO KNOWN AS		Yellow Uighur, Saryg Yughur, West Yugur, Yugur, West, Sarygh Uygur, Sarig, Ya Lu, Sari Yogur, Yuku, Yugu, Sary-Uighur, šira-jögur, Sprache der gelben Uiguren, Turkic Yellow Uighur, 西部裕固語
CLASSIFICATION		Turkic, Siberian Turkic, Yenisei Turkic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ybe
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Information from: “The Western Yugur (Yellow Yugur) Language: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary” . Roos, Martina Erica (2000)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,600 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The Western Yugurs and the Eastern Yugurs are both covered under the Yugurs nationality in China.

DATE OF INFO: 1985

MORE ON VITALITY

The vitality varies from place to place. In short, only in Minghai and Lianhua Townships of Minghua District (明花區), Yellow Yugur is the language used for daily communication, and is learned by children at home as L1 before school education.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Chinese; Tibetan; Eastern Yugur

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"A limited number of the Yugur living in Dahe District (大河區) of the western part of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) in Gansu (甘肅) Province are bilingual in both Western and Eastern Yugur. Most of the Yugur shift to Chinese which serves as a lingua franca as well as medium for school instruction. But in Minghai and Lianhua Townships of Minghua District (明花區), Western Yugur functions as the language of daily communication and is acquired by children as L1."

More on Orthography

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PLACES: Gansu Province, China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: spoken in Dahe (大河區) and Minghua (明花區) Districts of the western Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) , Gansu Province (甘肅省), China.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,600
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,600
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
6,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number (J. Zhong 1999). Ethnic population (D. Bradley 2000)

PLACES: China;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,600
Native speakers worldwide

	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		4,600		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				39.2747,98.8439
		2000	The Western Yugur (Yellow Yugur) Language: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary	The Western Yugur (Yellow Yugur) Language: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary		online			University of Leiden	http://members.home.nl/marcmarti/yugur/biblio/ROOS_WesternYugurLanguage.pdf	Roos, Martina Erica	Roos, Martina Erica. 2000. The Western Yugur (Yellow Yugur) Language: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary. PhD dissertation. Leiden: University of Leiden.			4,600 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)	1985	1000-9999	The Western Yugurs and the Eastern Yugurs are both covered under the Yugurs nationality in China.	Chinese for official domains	Chinese; Tibetan; Eastern Yugur	"A limited number of the Yugur living in Dahe District (大河區) of the western part of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) in Gansu (甘肅) Province are bilingual in both Western and Eastern Yugur. Most of the Yugur shift to Chinese which serves as a lingua franca as well as medium for school instruction. But in Minghai and Lianhua Townships of Minghua District (明花區), Western Yugur functions as the language of daily communication and is acquired by children as L1."	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	The vitality varies from place to place. In short, only in Minghai and Lianhua Townships of Minghua District (明花區), Yellow Yugur is the language used for daily communication, and is learned by children at home as L1 before school education.	Gansu Province, China	spoken in Dahe (大河區) and Minghua (明花區) Districts of the western Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣) , Gansu Province (甘肅省), China.	39.002, 99.502; 38.838, 99.618
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures		Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer		Oxford University Press	New York				2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.														38.75,99.75
			World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			2,600		1000-9999					Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)		M. Paul Lewis		SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	6,000	2,600		1000-9999	Speaker number (J. Zhong 1999). Ethnic population (D. Bradley 2000)				Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		China;

Yellow Uyghur

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Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4,600 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,600

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,600

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4,600

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Yellow Uyghur

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Language information by source

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4,600 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,600

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,600

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4,600

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