User talk:Djronnqvist
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Books on Dungan
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In response to your query on my talk page: (1) I doubt that the books on Dungan published in USSR/Kyrgyzstan are available for sale anywhere in the world (other that maybe some obscure second-hand bookstore): there were maybe 10 books published over the last 30-40 years, with very small print runs (around 500 copies). I have only seen them in US university libraries (specifically, those of University of Washington in Seattle - see photo at http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg, and Indiana University, Bloomington). Perhaps a major regional or university library in Beijing or Lanzhou or Urumqi can have some of them as well. (2) At least one of Svetlana Rimsky-Korsakoff's book (the one on Iasyr Shivaza, ISBN 3-631-43963-6) is still available on Amazon.com (and possibly amazon.co.uk or amazon.co.jp); it has an overview of the language, and sample texts. Don't know if they would ship to China. (3) There may be some online resources (in Russian, I suppose) linked from the Russian wiki article, Дунганский язык. (4) There may be more stuff published in China in Chinese - try searching on "东干语" on google.cn. Those probably will more likely be articles in some academic journal out of Lanzhou or Urumqi rather than actual books. (5) I have photocopied some pages of the Dungan-Russian dictionary for my use when contributing to the wiki article, so if you want, email me directly on gmail.com (with the same username as in wikipedia), and I can send you some scans by email, under the fair use doctine, so at least you can see what it looks like. Regards, Vmenkov (talk) 05:22, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
