Editing Tujia people (section)

==Language==
{{Main|Tujia language}}
[[Tujia language|Tujia]] is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]] and is usually considered an isolate within this group.  It has some grammatical and phonological similarities with [[Nuosu language|Nuosu]], though its vocabulary is very different.<ref>[http://www.brassett.org.uk/tujia/elng/elintro.html Brief Introduction to the Tujia Language]</ref>

Today there are at most 70,000 native speakers of the [[Tujia language]], most of whom live in the northern parts [[Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture]] in North-Western [[Hunan|Hunan Province]].

The vast majority of the Tujia use [[varieties of Chinese]], mainly [[Southwestern Mandarin]]; a few speak [[Hmongic languages]]. Few monolingual Tujia speakers remain; nearly all are bilingual in some dialect of Chinese. Children now learn Chinese from childhood and many young Tujia prefer to use Chinese when communicating among themselves. Among fluent Tujia speakers, Chinese borrowings and even sentence structures, are more common.