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Dongxiang / Santa (لھجکءاءل‎) Sarta Kelen / Lahjal Aal
Native to: China
Region: Gansu (mainly Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture) and Xinjiang (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture)
Native speakers: 200,000 (2007)
Language family: Mongolic

is a Mongolic language spoken by the Dongxiang people in Northwest China.

There are no dialects in strict sense, but three local varieties (tuyu) can be found: Suonanba (ca. 50% of all Dongxiang speakers), Wangjiaji (ca. 30% of all Dongxiang speakers) and Sijiaji (ca. 20% of all Dongxiang speakers).

In common with other Mongolic languages, Dongxiang is basically a SOV language. In Linxia, however, under the influence of the Mandarin Chinese dialects spoken by the neighbouring Hui people, sentences of the SVO type have also been observed.

Knowledge of Arabic is widespread among the Sarta and as a result, they often use the Arabic script to write down their language informally (cf. the Xiao'erjing system that was used by Hui people); however, this has been little investigated by scholars. As of 2003, the official Latin alphabet for Dongxiang, developed on the basis of the Monguor alphabet, remained in the experimental stage.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongxiangs
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/35282027.pdf
https://omniglot.com/writing/santa.htm
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dong1285

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