Home to 2 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 2 language families.
also: Hui Chinese (Central Asia)
A Sinitic language descended from late-19th-century Hui Muslim refugees who fled into the Russian Empire after the Qing-era Hui revolts. Written in Cyrillic, with substantial Russian, Persian, and Turkic loans.
also: Kyrgyzcha
A Kipchak Turkic language and the official language of Kyrgyzstan. Carries the Manas oral epic, one of the longest oral epic traditions in world literature.