Daur
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
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	tut
ISO 639-3:	dta
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The Daur language is a language primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group.

Classification

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.

Notes

Sources

• Ethnologue entry for Daur

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External links

• Unicode Manchu/Sibe/Daur Fonts and Keyboards

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