What is Dungan people?
{{No sources|date=October 2024}} The '''Dungan people''' are [[Ethnic group|ethnic]] [[Muslims]] that came from from [[China]] who live in regions of the former [[Soviet Union]] and [[Xinjiang]]. Their [[Ancestor|ancestors]] are the [[Hui people]] in China. Russians and Turkic-speaking peoples call them Dungan, but the Dungan call themselves Hui because that is what their [[Ancestor|ancestors]] called themselves. The Dungan language came from [[Mandarin Chinese]], and it is most like the [[Dialect|dialects]] in [[Gansu]] and [[Shaanxi]] provinces in China. The Dungan call their language the Hui language. Like Chinese, it is a [[Tone language|tonal language]]. However, it is different from Chinese because it uses some words that are no longer used in Chinese dialects today. There are also many [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]] [[Loanword|loanwords]]. Unlike Chinese, it is written using [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] instead of [[Chinese characters]]. == References == {{Ethnic groups of Russia}} [[Category:Ethnic groups in China]] [[Category:Xinjiang]]