public_comment: "Northern Qiang varieties and Southern Qiang varieties are mutually unintelligible. ",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:4001,
code_id:2405,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "57,800",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "306,072",
public_comment: "57,800 (1999), decreasing. 14,000 Mawo dialect, 14,000 Weigu dialect, 11,000 Luhua dialect, 8000 Cimulin dialect, and 9,000 Yadu dialect. 130,000 total for Northern and Southern Qiang languages, including 80,000 as Qiang nationality and 50,000 as Tibetan nationality (1990 J-O. Svantesson). Ethnic population: 306,072 (2000 census),",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:13511,
code_id:2405,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:102,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:31609,
code_id:2405,
speaker_number: "100000",
speaker_number_text: "130000 (including speakers of Northern Qiang and Southern Qiang)",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "200000",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "The given speaker number includes speakers who are ethnic Qiang (80000) and ethnic Tibetan (50000). Around 120000 ethnic Qiang have lost their heritage language(s).",