What is Dungan language?
{{No sources|date=October 2024}} The '''Dungan language''' is the [[First language|native language]] of the [[Dungan people]], a [[ethnic group]] living in regions of the former [[Soviet Union]] and [[Xinjiang]] who are [[Ancestor|descendants]] of [[Hui people]]. The Dungan call their own language the '''Hui language'''. It is a [[daughter language]] of [[Mandarin Chinese]] based on [[Gansu]] and [[Shaanxi]] [[Dialect|dialects]], and speakers of both dialects can largely understand each other. This is called [[Mutual intelligibility|mutual intelligibilty]]. Like Chinese, it is both [[Tone language|tonal]] and [[Analytic language|analytic]]. However, differences between Dungan and Chinese are that Dungan is written in [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] instead of [[Chinese characters]] and there are differences in vocabulary. Dungan has more [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] [[Loanword|loanwords]] and several [[Vocabulary|terms]] are no longer used in [[Standard Chinese]]. == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Languages of China]] [[Category:Languages of Russia]] [[Category:Languages of Tajikistan]] [[Category:Languages of Kyrgyzstan]] [[Category:Languages of Kazakhstan]] [[Category:Languages of Turkmenistan]] [[Category:Languages of Uzbekistan]] [[Category:Sino-Tibetan languages]]