• Threatened

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 10000

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  14000

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  "Baima is passed on from parents to children in Baima villages and is not used in any media of mass communication."

DATE OF INFO

2000 census

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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used mostly home domains

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

negative to netural

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

no

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

no

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Southwastern Mandarin

Scripts (Writing system)

IPA

More on Orthography

traditionally not written down

PLACES

China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

"Three counties in Sichuan Province (Jiuzhaigou, Songpan [Zung-chu], Pingwu) and one county in Gansu Province (Wenxian, Tielou Township) in the People’s Republic of China. Baima reside in the mountainous areas at the borders of these counties in the immediate proximity of Qiang, Chinese and Tibetan ethnic groups."

• Threatened

  40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• ~10,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  ~14,000

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

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Language in decline

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Amdo Tibetan

• Chinese

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Classified in the Tibetan nationality. The language is inundated with Tibetan loanwords.

PLACES

China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Northern Sichuan, Pingwu, Jiuzhaigou and Songpan counties and Wenxian County, Gansu Province