Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)
Vulnerable
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
DATE OF INFO
1993
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
MORE ON VITALITY
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
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