lang_description: "Xumi (旭米語, /ʃʉ-hĩ ketɕɐ/) means 'the language of the Shu people'. It is also known as Shixing 史興語 (Chirkova 2015, p. c.).",
classification: "Sino-Tibetan; Naic",
dialect_varieties: " two sub-varieties with restricted mutual intelligibility (Lower Xumi and Upper Xumi)",
public_comment: "In the Muli County where this group lives, the Shixing-speaking people are known as Xùmǐ 旭米 (currently their official denomination in Chinese) or Sùmǔ 粟母, both of which are Chinese renderings of the group’s name in Prinmi (Púmǐ), Prinmi being the language of Mùlǐ’s ethnic majority (Chirkova 2009).",
private_comment: null,
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speakers: [
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1,800",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "2,000",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "1,200 monolinguals.
Data for the number of native speakers and ethnic population comes from D. Bradley (2000).",
private_comment: null,
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speaker_number_text: "1,800",
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older_adults: null,
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speaker_number_text: "1,800",
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older_adults: null,
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code_id:5431,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~1,800",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "<2,000",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "",
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code_id:5431,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "1800",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2005-2006",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:94860,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:31207,
code_id:5431,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~1000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "ca. 1800",
date_of_info: "2013",
public_comment: ""Children still learn the language at home; in Xumi villages everyone can speak Xumi and there are even some monolingual speakers (women)"",
private_comment: null,
source_id:99003,
preferred:1,
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simplified_level: "mid",
coordinates: "28.275358, 100.666351",
updated_at: "2018-03-18 01:00:58",
speaker_attitude: "neutral to positive",
government_support: "no",
institutional_support: "no",
_other_languages_used: "Mandarin (Southwest Mandarin), Tibetan (Kami, the Tibetan dialect of Muli County), Pumi (Prinmi), Mosuo, Naxi",
domains_of_use: "Used in some non-official domains along with other languages, and remains the primary language used in the home for many community members.",