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Cai-Long languages

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The Cai-Long, or Ta-Li, languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in western Guizhou, China. Only Caijia is still spoken, while Longjia and Luren are extinct. The branch was first recognized by Chinese researchers in the 1980s, with the term Cai-Long first mentioned in Guizhou.

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Region
Western Guizhou, China 1
Speaker Count
1000 1
Sources
1. Cai-Long languages, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph
    are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in western Guizhou, China.
  • Section on Caijia, speaker base
    The only surviving language of Cai-Long group is Caijia and is critically endangered with a speaker base of approximately 1,000.
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