Languages of China

Altay is a language of the Turkic group of languages. It is an official language of Altai Republic, Russia. The language was called Oyrot prior to 1948. There were ca. 52,000 people speaking this language in 1989. Two dialects of the Altay language are northern (with the Tuba, Kumandy, and Chalkan varieties named after the main tribes) and southern (with the Altai proper and Telengit varieties). ...more on Wikipedia about "Altay language"

The Dong language (own name: leec Gaeml) is a Tai-Kadai (or Zhuang-Dong) language spoken by the Dong people of China. It has been traditionally written in Chinese characters. A new spelling based on the Latin alphabet was developed in 1958, but it is not used very much, due to a lack of printed material and trained teachers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dong language"

The term Dongba literally refers to the religious priests, the culture, and the script of the people, which exerts a great influence upon the lives of the Nakhi people, who are found in southwestern China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dongba"

Dongxiang is a Mongolic language spoken by the Dongxiang people of northwestern China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dongxiang language"

The Evenk language (Evenki language) ( SIL: EVN, ...more on Wikipedia about "Evenk language"

Fuyü Gïrgïs (or Fu-Yu Kirgiz) is the easternmost Turkic language. It is spoken in northeastern China by a small number of passive speakers. Pioneering fieldwork on the language has been done by Hu Zhen-hua and G. Imart. (see their small monograph Fu-Yu Girgis: A Tentative Description of the Easternmost Turkic Language. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1988. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fuyü Gïrgïs language"

The Fuyu languages or Buyeo (Puyŏ) languages are a hypothetical language family that would relate the languages of Buyeo/Fuyu, Goguryeo, Baekje and the Japonic languages, and possibly place them together as a family under the hypothetical Altaic family. In particular, Goguryeo and Baekje considered themselves to be descended from Buyeo, and both traditionally had close relations and kinship with Yamato period Japan until they ultimately fell to the kingdom of Silla. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fuyu languages"

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Hmong (Hmong: Hmoob) is a Hmong-Mien language spoken by the Hmong people native to Sichuan, northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. Some 160,000 Hmong speakers now live in the United States as well, mostly in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ** . It consists of a large number of mutually unintelligible dialects, often considered languages. The dialect discussed here is known as White Hmong or Hmong Daw. There are other dialects, including Blue Hmong (Hmong Njua) and Black Hmong. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hmong language"

The Jurchens ( Chinese: 女真, pinyin: nǚzhēn) were a Tungus people who inhabited parts of Manchuria and northern Korea until the seventeenth century, when they became the Manchus. They established the Jin Dynasty (aisin gurun in Jurchen/Manchu) between 1115 and 1122; it lasted until 1234. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jurchens"

Kalmyk (Kalmuck, Calmouk, Oirat) is the language of the Kalmyks, spoken in Kalmykia ( Russian Federation), Western China and Western Mongolia. There are about 160,000 Kalmyk speakers in each country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kalmyk language"

Kim, Stephen S. "Santa". In: Juha Janhunen (ed.). The Mongolic Languages. New York: Routledge, 2003. pp. 347-8. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kangjia language"

Kazak, also Kazakh, Khazakh, Qazaq, Kosach, and Kaisak (Қазақ тілі in Cyrillic, Qazaq tilî in the Latin alphabet, and قازاق تءىلءي in the Arabic alphabet) is a Western Turkic language closely related to the Nogai and Karakalpak languages. It is the official language of Kazakhstan, and it is spoken in Central Asia, Iran, and the former Soviet Union. Germany has some Kazak speakers in the second half of the 20th century and onward. These are mainly descendants of the Volga Germans who were deported to Kazakhstan, mixed with the local population and later returned to Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kazakh language"

Khams Ke (ཁམས་སྐད་ Wylie transliteration: khams skad) refers to the Tibetan language dialects spoken in Eastern Tibet or Kham (E. Tibet Autonomous Region, S. Qinghai, W. Sichuan, Yunnan). It should not be confused with the Kham language spoken by the Kham Magars of Western Nepal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khams Tibetan language"

The Khitan language is a now-extinct language once spoken by the Khitan people. There were two writing systems for the Khitan language, known as the large script and the small script; they were functionally independent. The former was derived from Chinese ( Han characters), and the latter was reportedly created by the scholar Diela ca. 925 AD, and is said to be inspired by the Uighur alphabet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khitan language"

The Korean language ( 한국어 or 조선어, see below) is the official language of both North and South Korea. The language is also spoken widely in neighbouring Yanbian, China. Worldwide, there are around 78 million Korean speakers, including large groups in the former Soviet Union, Australia, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, and more recently the Philippines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Korean language"

Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyrgyz language"

The different ethnic groups in China speak a great variety of languages, called the Zhongguo Yuwen (中国语文), meaning "languages of China". These languages span six linguistic families and most of them are dissimilar morphologically and phonetically. ...more on Wikipedia about "Languages of China"

Linghua (more proper: Linglinghua) is a local dialect in Yongzhou, section of the province of Hunan. It is one of the unclassified Chinese languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linghua"

The Manchu language is a member of the Tungusic languages of Altic family; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 100 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus. However, there are about 40,000 speakers of Sibe (Xibo), which is in almost every respect identical to classical Manchu. However, Sibe speakers, who live in far western Xinjiang, are ethnically distinct from Manchus and lay claim as well to the distinctiveness of their language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manchu language"

Maojiahua (hua = language) is a variety of Chinese language spoken by about 20,000 people of Miao or Hmong ethnicity in the southwest of Hunan, in the norteast of Guangxi and in some areas of Hubei. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maojiahua"

Miao refers to the language of the Miao, an ethnic group of China, which is a language of the Hmong-Mien language family. It used to be written with a derivative of Han characters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Miao language"

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Mongolian is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family, and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia. If the Altaic theory is correct, then Mongolian also belongs to the larger Altaic language family. It is also spoken in some of the surrounding areas in provinces of China and the Russian Federation. The majority of speakers in Mongolia speak the Khalkha (or Halh) dialect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mongolian language"

The Monpa language is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet. It belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family, and it is mutually unintelligible to Tibetan, although it shares many similarities with the Bumthang dialect. The language uses the Tibetan script to represent its words and phonetics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monpa language"

Nü Shu ( Traditional Chinese: 女書; Simplified Chinese: 女书; Hanyu Pinyin: nǚ shū), literally translated as "Women's writing", is a syllabary writing system that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County (江永县) in Hunan province of southern China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nü Shu"

Pingdi Yaohua is an unclassified variety of the Chinese language spoken by the Pingdi Yao, a branch of the Yao nationality in the provinces of Guangxi and Hunan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pingdi Yaohua"

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