Daur language
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| Daur | ||
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| Spoken in: | China | |
| Region: | Inner Mongolia, Hailar Prefecture; Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar Prefecture; Xinjiang, Tacheng Prefecture | |
| Total speakers: | 96,085 (as of 1999) | |
| Language family: | Altaic[1] (controversial) Mongolic Eastern Daur |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | dta | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Daur language is a language primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group.
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Daur is a Mongolic language. Daur has many peculiarities that place it apart from the main body of the Mongolic languages; its unusual position is reflected in its classification as the only member of the Northeastern branch of the Mongolic language family. There is no written standard, although a Pinyin-based orthography has been devised by the native Daur scholar Merden Enhebatu. The Daur language retains some Khitan substratal features, including a number of lexemes not found in other Mongolic languages. It is made up of three dialects: Bataxan, Hailar, Qiqihar.
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