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阝日木卩由巾凡 (kofanchen@g0v.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 01:19:51 JST 阝日木卩由巾凡
- Adrianna Tan
- T Chu 朱
@chu @skinnylatte
I learnt about 東干話 on the other day..mind blowing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_language
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  Dungan language
  
  Dungan ( or ) is a Sinitic language spoken primarily in the Chu Valley of southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. It is the native language of the Dungan people, a Hui subgroup that fled Qing China in the 19th century. It evolved from the Central Plains Mandarin variety spoken in Gansu and Shaanxi. It is the only Sino-Tibetan language to be officially written in the Cyrillic script. In addition, the Dungan language contains loanwords and archaisms not found in other modern varieties of Mandarin. History The Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (with smaller groups living in other post-Soviet states) are the descendants of several groups of the Hui people that migrated to the region in the 1870s and the 1880s after the defeat of the Dungan revolt in Northwestern China. The Hui of Northwestern China (often referred to as "Dungans" or "Tungani" by 19th-century western writers, as well as by some Turkic peoples) would normally speak the same Mandarin dialect as the Han people in the same area (or in the area from which the particular Hui community had been resettled). At the same time, due to their...
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  @kofanchen @chu oh yeah there’s on restaurant in New York City that serves their food and speaks their language..
  
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