Shira Yugur language

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The Shira Yugur language is an endangered Mongolic language spoken by the Yellow Yugur people in Gansu Province, China.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mongolic language
endangered language
natural language
alternativeName Enger
Shira Yugur language
surface form: Shera Yugur language

Shira Yugur language
surface form: Yellow Yugur language
associatedWith Yellow Yugur culture
coexistsWith Eastern Yugur language
country China
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnolinguisticGroup Yugur people
glottocode yugh1238
hasContactWith Mandarin Chinese
Tibetan
surface form: Tibetan languages

Turkic languages
hasEthnicPopulation Yellow Yugur people
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Chinese
Tibetan
Turkic languages
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Chinese
hasWritingSystem no widely used standard orthography
ISO639-3Code yuy
languageFamily Mongolic languages
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Chinese
Mongolian Cyrillic
surface form: Standard Mongolian
region Sunan Yugur Autonomous County
northwestern China
relatedTo Bonan language
Eastern Yugur language (distantly, as co-ethnic language)
Monguor (Tu) language
surface form: Monguor language
riskFactor language shift to Mandarin Chinese
small speaker population
scriptHistoricallyUsed Chinese characters (limited and ad hoc)
spokenBy Yellow Yugur people
spokenIn China
Gansu Province
subfamily Shirongolic
subjectOf fieldwork-based descriptive grammars
lexicographic documentation
phonological studies
typologicalFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
vowel harmony (partially preserved)
usedFor oral communication
usedIn oral narratives
ritual contexts
traditional songs

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Mongolic languages hasPart Shira Yugur language
Mongolic languages languageFamilyOf Shira Yugur language
Proto-Mongolic language hasDescendant Shira Yugur language
Shira Yugur language alternativeName Shira Yugur language
this entity surface form: Yellow Yugur language
Shira Yugur language alternativeName Shira Yugur language
this entity surface form: Shera Yugur language