Informationen von: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)
Gefährdet
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<100,000
<100,000
total number of speakers: no exact data available; possibly still a majority of the total ethnic group
DATUM DER INFORMATION
1993
ENTWICKLUNGSTENDENZEN BEI SPRECHERN
VERBREITUNG
MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT
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
ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
Mongolian
KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT
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.
ORTE
Inner Mongolia, China
ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
in the southwestern part of the Barga steppe region, within the Right and Left Xin Baerhu Banners of Hulun Buir Aimak, Inner Mongolia, China