Editing Mandarin Chinese (section)

=== Central Asia ===
{{main|Dungan language}}
The [[Dungan people]] of [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Uzbekistan]] are descendants of [[Hui people]] who fled to the [[Russian Empire]] from [[Dzungaria]] in 1877 after the fall of [[Kashgaria]] to Qing forces and from the [[Ili (river)|Ili]] valley after it was ceded to China in the [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)|Treaty of Saint Petersburg]] in 1881.{{sfnp|Rimsky-Korsakoff Dyer|1977–1978|p=349}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Maria |last=Vdovkina |title=The Lost Hui: How a People from China Mastered the Cyrillic Alphabet and Found Themselves on the Other Side of the Celestial Mountains |year=2023 |website=Вокруг Света |language=ru |url=https://www.vokrugsveta.ru/articles/zateryannyi-khuei-kak-narod-iz-kitaya-osvoil-kirillicu-i-okazalsya-po-druguyu-storonu-nebesnykh-gor-id904799/ |access-date=8 September 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Sam |last= Breazeale |title= Dispatch from the Chüy Valley Since ethnic violence in 2020, Dungans on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border have straddled two different worlds |year=2023 |website= meduza.io |url= https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/12/dispatch-from-the-chuy-valley |access-date=9 September 2024 }}</ref> About 500 speakers live in a compact area in [[Rovensky District, Saratov Oblast]] in Russia.<ref name="minlang.iling-ran">{{cite web |title=Dungan |website=Minor Languages of Russia |publisher=[[Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences]] |language=ru |url=https://minlang.iling-ran.ru/lang/dunganskiy |access-date=8 September 2024 }}</ref> The Dungan speak two dialects, descended from [[Central Plains Mandarin]] dialects of southeast Gansu and southwest Shaanxi, and write their language in the [[Cyrillic script]].<ref name="minlang.iling-ran"/>{{sfnp|Rimsky-Korsakoff Dyer|1977–1978|p=355}}