ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE
| Qing Hai |
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 |
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| 1 | zi |
| 2 | ei |
| 3 | san |
| 4 | si |
| 5 | vi |
| 6 | liu |
| 7 | chir |
| 8 | ba |
| 9 | jiu |
| 10 | shir |
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