Information from: “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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Most young people are semi- speakers, speaking Chinese instead; endangered, and becoming more so.
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
Classified as Mongol nationality; the group claims descent from a Mongol army left behind in Yunnan during the Yuan Dynasty, and maintains a shrine for Genghis Khan and other Mongol emperors, but they are aware that the language they speak is a Loloish one, and find their speech moderately similar to nearby Nisu. There is no evidence of any Mongol lexical or other material in the language.