• Dungan (/ˈdʊŋɡɑːn/ or /ˈdʌŋɡən/) is a Sinitic language spoken primarily in Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan by the Dungan people, an ethnic group related...
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    Dungan is a term used in territories of the former Soviet Union to refer to a group of Muslim people of Hui origin. Turkic-speaking peoples in Xinjiang...
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    areas write their local Chinese language variant in Nüshu, a syllabary derived from Chinese characters. The Dungan language, considered by many a dialect...
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  • Look up Dungan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dungan may refer to: Dungan people, a group of Muslim people of Hui origin Dungan language Dungan, sometimes...
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    The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877), also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt (simplified Chinese: 同治回乱; traditional Chinese: 同治回亂; pinyin: Tóngzhì Huí Luàn, Xiao'erjing:...
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    is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around...
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    intelligibility with Beijing. The Dungan language spoken in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan belongs to this group. Dungan speakers such as the poet Iasyr Shivaza...
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  • Language Kyakhta Russian-Chinese Pidgin Russian methods for writing the Chinese language: Cyrillization of Chinese Latinxua Sin Wenz Dungan language,...
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    Hui people (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú; Wade–Giles: Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: خُوِزُو, Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed...
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    Xiao'erjing (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    writing Sinitic languages—such as the Lanyin Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin and Northeastern Mandarin dialects—or the Dungan language using the Perso-Arabic...
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  • abbreviation of dienogest, a progestin medication The ISO 639-3 code for the Dungan language The station code for Dandenong railway station, Victoria, Australia...
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    Dapanji (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    Dapanji (Chinese: 大盘鸡; pinyin: Dàpánjī; lit. 'big plate chicken') and Dungan language: Latin: Da pan ji, Cyrillic: Дапанджи. Translation into Uyghur: toxu...
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    other hand, is divided as Jincheng, Yinwu, Hexi and Beijiang. The Dungan language is a collection of Central Plains Mandarin varieties spoken in the...
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    Official names of the Soviet Union (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    Socialist Republics, in the languages of the Soviet Republics (presented in the constitutional order) and other languages of the USSR, were as follows...
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    Tian Shan (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Chinese: 天山; pinyin: Tiānshān; lit. 'Heaven Mountain' Dungan: Тянсан, Tiansan Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰣 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃, Tenğri tağ Turkish: Tanrı Dağı...
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    Pamir Mountains (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    Ts'ung-ling), which is named after the wild onions growing in the region; In the Dungan dialect of Mandarin, it is written Памир / Цунлин in the Cyrillic alphabet...
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    Taklamakan Desert (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    塔克拉玛干沙漠; pinyin: Tǎkèlāmǎgān Shāmò, Xiao'erjing: تَاكْلامَاقًا شَاموْ, Dungan: Такәламаган Шамә; Uyghur: تەكلىماكان قۇملۇقى, Täklimakan Qumluqi; also...
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    Chuan (food) (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    Chuan (Chinese: 串, Dungan: Чўан, pinyin: chuàn, "kebab/skewer"; Uyghur: كاۋاپ, кавап, "kawap"), especially in the north-east of China referred to as chuan'r...
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    Altai Mountains (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    or اَعَرتَىْ شًامَىْ in Xiao'erjing); and Arteː shanmeː (Артэ Шанмэ) in Dungan. The Altai Mountains are a system of remote mountains in central Asia that...
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    Lake Zaysan (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    various hordes and khanates, including the Dzungar Khanate. In the language of the local Dungan people, it is Jesonpe or Zhaisaonpe (Җэсонпә). In Russian, it...
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    also translated as "Mandarin" or simply "Chinese". In addition, the Dungan language of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan is a Mandarin variety written in the Cyrillic...
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  • Iasyr Shivaza (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    after the defeat of the Dungan Rebellion. Shivaza founded Soviet Dungan literature and authored many textbooks in the Dungan language, helping improve literacy...
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    spoken in Kazakhstan are Dungan, Ili Turki, Ingush, Plautdietsch, and Sinte Romani. A number of more recent immigrant languages, such as Belarusian, Korean...
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  • Nunation (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    writing of Sinitic languages such as Mandarin (especially the Lanyin, Zhongyuan and Northeastern dialects) or the Dungan language. This writing system...
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    Fergana Valley (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    Chinese: 費爾干納盆地; pinyin: Fèi ěr gàn nà péndì Xiao'erjing: فِ عَر قًا نَ پٌ دِ‎ Dungan: Фыйрганна Пенды The Fergana Valley is an intermountain depression in Central...
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  • Voiceless bilabial plosive (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in most spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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    Dutar (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    romanized: Dutar; simplified Chinese: 都塔尔; traditional Chinese: 都塔爾; pinyin: Dū tǎ ěr; Dungan: Дутар) is a traditional Iranian long-necked two-stringed lute found in...
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    Ili (river) (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    dəryasi'; Kazakh: Ile, ئله; Russian: Или; Chinese: 伊犁河; pinyin: Yīlí Hé, Dungan: Йили хә, Xiao'erjing: اِلِ حْ; Mongolian: Ил, literally "Bareness") is...
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    Chu (river) (category Articles containing Dungan-language text)
    Chüy) (Kazakh: Шу, romanized: Shu, شۋ; Kyrgyz: Чүй, romanized: Chüy, چۉي; Dungan: Чў, romanized: Chwu (from 楚, Chǔ); Russian: Чу, romanized: Chu) is a river...
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    Yevgeny Polivanov (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    polyglot who wrote major works on the Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek and Dungan languages and on theoretical linguistics and poetics. He participated in the...
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