Endangered Languages Project - East Yugur

East Yugur

^{[aka Shira Yughur, Enger, Shira Yugur]}

Classification: Mongolic

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Shira Yughur, Enger, Shira Yugur, Shera Yogur, Eastern Yogor, Yogor, Yögur, Yugu, Yugar, Yellow Uighur, Šera-Yögur, Mongolic Yellow Uighur, 東部裕固語
CLASSIFICATION		Mongolic, Shirongolic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		yuy
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
> 6,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Though East Yugur is Monglic, it is "officially linked with the Turkic-speaking Western Yugur in the Yugur nationality."

PLACES: China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Gansu (甘肅) Province

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,800 (as of Chen & Lei 1985)
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The Eastern Yugurs and the Western Yugurs are both covered under the Yugurs nationality in China.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "A limited number of the Yugur living in Huangcheng are bilingual in both Western and Eastern Yugur. A small number of Tibetans married into the Yugur community in Huangcheng District speak Tibetan and Eastern Yugur. Most of the Yugur shift to Chinese which serves as a lingua franca."
More on Orthography: no orthography

PLACES: Gansu Province, China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: the eastern part of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肅南裕固族自治縣), specifically Hongshiwo (紅石窩) and Qinglong (青龍) Townships of Kangle District (康樂區), and Beitan (北灘) and Dongtan (東灘) Townships of Huangcheng District (皇城區), Gansu Province, China.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
6,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number (1999 Junast). Ethnic population (2000 D. Bradley).

PLACES: China;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

38.780, 99.987; 38.859, 99.701; 39.277, 97.524; 38.999, 99.412

COORDINATES

COORDINATES

39.1002,99.2065

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Information from: “The Western Yugur (Yellow Yugur) Language: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary” . Roos, Martina Erica (2000)