Qing Hai

Hadijia Niu

ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE


Your first name Hadijia
Your last name Niu
Preferred name(s) of your language Qinghai Mandarin
Alternative names Tianjin Mandarin
Language classification Sino-Tibetan, Chinese
Geographic areas where spoken Western part of China, Qinghai province, Tianjin province in northern China
Approximate number of monolingual speakers Very few, most speak Mandarin as well, 200-400
Approximate number of fluent speakers 200-400
Other languages spoken in area/country Chinese, Chinese dialects, Tibetan, Mongolian, Turkish
Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language? No
Does you language have a widely accepted writing system? Yes, Chinese characters, no phoneticization
If you answered yes, what materials are written? Nothing with Qinghai dialect

NUMBERS
1 zi
2 ei
3 san
4 si
5 vi
6 liu
7 chir
8 ba
9 jiu
10 shir

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