• Critically endangered

  100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 1?

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  <20

• CHILDREN

  0

• YOUNG ADULTS

  0

• OLDER ADULTS

  0

• ELDERS

  1?

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  The last speaker, of the male sex, was 79 in 1990.

DATE OF INFO

1993

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Dagur

• Kazakh

• Uigur

• Chinese

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

degree of speakers' competence: in addition to the last fluent speaker, a few individuals know some isolated phrases or words

PLACES

Xinjiang, China

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

in the Ili (Yili) region of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), within the Kazakh Autonomous District of the Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region, China

• Extinct

  Native speakers worldwide