New Bargut
[aka New Barghut, Xin Baerhu, Menggu]Classification: Mongolic
·vulnerable
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Vulnerable
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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<100,000
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<100,000
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total number of speakers: no exact data available; possibly still a majority of the total ethnic group
- DATE OF INFO
- 1993
- SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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the language is apparently still being learnt by many children in pre-school age, but native language skills are undermined in later age by the assimilative pressure of Standard Mongolian, the official minority language of Inner Mongolia
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Mongolian
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
Since children are educated in Standard Mongolian, there is a lot of variation as to how consistently any given individual will preserve New Bargut features in his native speech.
- PLACES
- Inner Mongolia, China
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
in the southwestern part of the Barga steppe region, within the Right and Left Xin Baerhu Banners of Hulun Buir Aimak, Inner Mongolia, China