Xibe language

Xibe
Sibe
ᠰᡞᠪᡝ
ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ

sibe gisun
Pronunciation[ɕivə kisun][1]
Native toChina
RegionXinjiang[2]
Ethnicity189,000 Sibe people (2000)[3]
Native speakers
30,000 (2000)[3]
Tungusic
Sibe alphabet (variant of the Manchu alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3sjo
Glottologxibe1242
ELPXibe

The Xibe language (Xibe: ᠰᡞᠪᡝ ᡤᡞᠰᡠᠨ, romanized: sibe gisun, also Sibo, Sibe) is a Tungusic language spoken by members of the Sibe minority of Xinjiang, in Northwest China.

  1. ^ Li & Zhong (1986), p. 1
  2. ^ S. Robert Ramsey (1987). The Languages of China. Princeton University Press. pp. 216–. ISBN 0-691-01468-X.
  3. ^ a b Xibe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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