Dungan language
| Dungan | |
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| Хуэйзў йүян | |
 Bilingual signs in Dungan (top) and Russian at the home of Soviet war hero Mansuz Vanakhun | |
| Pronunciation | Dungan pronunciation: [xwɛ̌jt͡sû ʝŷʝɛ̃̌] |
| Native to | Central Asia |
| Region | Chu Valley (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan), Altai Krai, Saratov Oblast (Rovensky District) (Russia), Fergana Valley (Uzbekistan) |
| Ethnicity | Dungan |
Native speakers | 145,000 (2009–2021) |
| Dungan alphabets (Cyrillic, formerly Latin, Arabic and Chinese characters) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dng |
| Glottolog | dung1253 |
| ELP | Dungan |
| Dungan language | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 東干語 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东干语 | ||||||||||
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| Dunganese name | |||||||||||
| Dungan | Хуэйзў йүян | ||||||||||
| Hanzi | 回族語言 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur | تۇڭگان تىلى | ||||||||||
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| Russian | Дунганский язык | ||||||||||
| Romanization | Dunganskij jazyk | ||||||||||
| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | Дунган тили دۇنعان تىلى Dungan tili | ||||||||||
| Kazakh name | |||||||||||
| Kazakh | Дүнген тілі دۇنگەن تىلى Düngen tılı | ||||||||||
Dungan (/ˈdʊŋ.ɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋ.ɡən/) 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 varieties 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.