Bonan language

Bonan
མ་ནི་སྐད་ཅི
Native to	China
Region	Gansu, Qinghai
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Serbi–Mongolic? Mongolic Southern Mongolic Shirongolic [fr] Baoanic[2] Bonan
Writing system	Tibetan script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	peh
Glottolog	bona1250
Bonan is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Bonan language (pronounced [p⁼aoˈnaŋ], Baonang; Chinese: 保安语, Bǎo'ānyǔ; Amdo Tibetan: Dorké), also known by its endonym Maniskacha (Tibetan: མ་ནི་སྐད་ཅི; Wylie: Ma ni skad ci),^[3] is the Mongolic language of the Bonan people of China. As of 1985, it was spoken by about 8,000 people, including about 75% of the total Bonan ethnic population and many ethnic Monguor, in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces. There are several dialects, which are influenced to varying degrees – but always heavily – by Chinese and Tibetan, while bilingualism in Wutun is less common. The most commonly studied is the Tongren dialect. Bonan is not typically written by speakers,^[4] though there is a folk practice of writing Bonan with the Tibetan syllabary following Amdo pronunciation.^[5]