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Eastern Yugur language

Eastern Yugur
Native to China
Region Gansu
Ethnicity 6,000 Yugur (2000)
Native speakers
4,000 (2007)
Mongolic
  • Shirongolic
    • Eastern Yugur
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog east2337

Eastern Yugur is the Mongolic language spoken within the Yugur nationality. The other language spoken within the same community is Western Yughur, which is a Turkic language. The terms may also indicate the speakers of these languages. Traditionally, both languages are indicated by the term Yellow Uygur, from the autonym of the Yugur. Eastern Yugur speakers are said to have passive bilingualism with Southern Mongolian, the standard spoken in China.

Grigory Potanin recorded a glossary of Salar language, Western Yugur language, and Eastern Yugur language in his 1893 Russian language book The Tangut-Tibetan Borderlands of China and Central Mongolia.



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