||6,000 (1999 Junast). Ethnic population: 24,500, including 16,500 Jishishan and 8000 Tongren.
||Southwest Gansu Province, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Jishishan Bao’an-Dongxiang-Sala Autonomous County; east Qinghai Province, Bonan-speaking Tu in Tongren.
||Bao’an, Baonan, Boan, Paoan, Paongan
||Jishishan (Dahejia, Dajiahe, Dakheczjha), Tongren (Tungyen). Jishishan subdialects are Ganhetan and Dadun; Tongren subdialects are Nianduhu, Guomari, Gajiuri, and Lower Bao’an village. Jishishan dialect has been influenced by Mandarin Chinese [cmn], Tongren by Tibetan [bod]. There are phonological and grammatical differences between them, and inherent intelligibility may be low.
||Altaic, Mongolic, Eastern, Mongour
||Religion, local administration. Positive attitude. Written Chinese in common use.
||Literacy rate in L2: 44%. Dictionary. Grammar.
||The Jishishan Bonan in Gansu are classified as Baoan (Bao’an) nationality, while Tongren Bonan in Qinghai are classified as Tu nationality. They moved into Jishishan from Tongren in 1858–1863. SOV; stress on final syllable; modifiers precede noun heads; Tongren dialect allows onset consonant clusters which resemble Tibetan; Jishishan dialect has Chinese-type syllable structure. Agriculturalists; forestry; crafts. Muslim (Sunni), Buddhist (Lamaist).