Daur language

E300213

The Daur language is a Mongolic language spoken primarily by the Daur ethnic group in northeastern China, notable for preserving several archaic features of the Mongolic family.

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Label Occurrences
Daur language canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mongolic language
endangered language
natural language
country China
documentedIn descriptive grammars by Mongolic linguists
ethnicGroup Daur people
family Mongolic languages
glottocode dawr1238
hasAutonym Dauʁur
hasCaseSystem yes
hasDialects Hailar dialect
Nonni dialect
Xinjiang Daur variety (migrant community)
hasGrammaticalFeature case-marking suffixes
derivational verbal morphology
non-finite verb forms
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some dialects)
rich consonant inventory
hasVowelHarmony partially preserved
influencedBy Chinese language
Evenki language
Manchu
surface form: Manchu language
ISO639-3 dta
languageFamilyBranch Daur
languageStatus definitely endangered
lexicalSimilarity Mongolian language
morphologicalType agglutinative
preservesFeature archaic Mongolic morphological features
archaic Mongolic phonological features
archaic Mongolic vocabulary
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Heilongjiang
Hulunbuir
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
surface form: Inner Mongolia

Molidawa Daur Autonomous Banner
surface form: Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner
relatedTo Buryat language
Evenki language
surface form: Evenki language (areal contact)

Mongolic languages
surface form: Mongolian language
shiftedTo Mandarin Chinese (among younger speakers)
spokenBy Daur people
spokenIn Hulunbuir Grassland
surface form: Hulunbuir grasslands

villages along the Nonni River
subfamily Mongolic languages
surface form: Northern Mongolic
usedIn folk songs of Daur people
local storytelling of Daur communities
oral tradition of Daur people
writingSystem Latin script (romanization)
Mongolian script (historically, limited use)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mongolic languages hasPart Daur language
Mongolic languages languageFamilyOf Daur language