|ISO 639-3||None ( The Tangwang language (Chinese: 唐汪话 Tángwàng
huà) is a variety of Mandarin Chinese heavily influenced by the
Mongolic Dongxiang language. It is spoken in a dozen or so
villages in Dongxiang Autonomous County, Gansu Province, China.
The linguist Mei W. Lee-Smith calls this creole language the
"Tangwang language" (Chinese: 唐汪话), based on the names of the
two largest villages (Tangjia and Wangjia, parts of Tangwang
town) where it is spoken. According to Lee-Smith (1996), the
Tangwang language is spoken by about 20,000 people living in the
north-eastern part of the Dongxiang Autonomous County (Tangwang
town). These people self-identify as Dongxiang or Hui people.
The Tangwang speakers don't speak Dongxiang language. The
Tangwang language uses mostly Mandarin words and morphemes with
Dongxiang grammar. Besides Dongxiang loanwords, Tangwang also
has a substantial number of Arabic and Persian loanwords. Like
standard Mandarin, Tangwang is a tonal language, but grammatical
particles, which are typi