Information from: “Zhongya Donggan yuyan yanjiu (中亞東干語研究) [A Study of the Dungan Language of Central Asia]” . Hai, Feng (海峰) (2003) Xinjiang University Press (新疆大學出版社)
DOMAINS OF USE
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SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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Dungan language class is offered in school within the Dungan communities, and code-switching between Dungan and Russian is very common due to widespread bilingualism. People who live outside the Dungan communities begin to shift to Russian.
- SPEAKER ATTITUDE
- positive
- INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
- yes
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
Dungan is the dominant languages used in the Dungan communities or within the family. But Russian is used in the official domains, including formal meetings in the Dungan communities where everyone speaks Dungan.
- Scripts (Writing system)
- Cyrillic script
- Competing Orthographies
- Arabic script; Latin script
- More on Orthography
Only Cyrillic script is in use nowadays. Writing is based on the Gansu Dungan variety.