Bonan language
E300211
The Bonan language is an endangered Mongolic language spoken primarily by the Bonan ethnic group in Gansu and Qinghai provinces of China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bonan language canonical | 4 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mongolic language
ⓘ
agglutinative language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ subject–object–verb language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| belongsTo | languages of China ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | limited descriptive grammars and wordlists ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnologueEntry | Bonan ⓘ |
| glottologCode | bona1250 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Bonan ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bao'an language
ⓘ
Mongolic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Bonan Mongolic
|
| hasDialects |
Gansu Bonan
ⓘ
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County ⓘ
surface form:
Qinghai Bonan
|
| hasFeature |
case marking on nouns
ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ vowel harmony (partially preserved) ⓘ |
| hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn | China ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | suffixing language ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
aspirated and unaspirated stops
ⓘ
contrastive vowel length (partially) ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | no widely used standard writing system ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
Tibetan language ⓘ Turkic languages ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | peh ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mongolic languages ⓘ |
| lexiconInfluencedBy |
Arabic and Persian religious terms (via Chinese and Hui contact)
ⓘ
Chinese loanwords ⓘ Tibetan loanwords ⓘ |
| primarySpeakerReligion | Islam (among many Bonan speakers) ⓘ |
| region |
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County
ⓘ
Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture ⓘ Tongren County, Qinghai ⓘ |
| shiftedTo |
Mandarin Chinese
ⓘ
surface form:
Mandarin Chinese (among younger speakers)
|
| spokenBy |
Bao'an ethnic group
ⓘ
Bonan people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Gansu Province
ⓘ
China ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of China
Qinghai ⓘ
surface form:
Qinghai Province
|
| subclassOf | Eastern Mongolic language ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | language shift to Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| usedAs | home language in Bonan communities ⓘ |
| usesScriptHistorically | Arabic script (limited and non-standard) ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.