Nanai Language (gld)

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Also Known As: Juchen,Gold,Goldi,Nanaj,Hezhe,Sushen,Hezhen,Heche,Nanai,Nanai language


Description:

The Nanai language (also called Gold language or Hezhen language) is spoken by the Nanai people in Siberia, and to a much smaller extent in China's Heilongjiang province, where it is known as Hezhe. The language has about 3,902 speakers out of 12,160 members of the ethnicity, but most of them (especially younger generations) are also fluent in Russian or Chinese (depending on the country where they live), and mostly use one of those languages for communication. In China, the language is referred to as hè zhé yǔ (Chinese: 赫哲语). The Nanai people there variously refer to themselves as /na nio/, /na bəi/, /na nai/ (which all mean "local people"), /ki lən/, and /χə ɖʐən/, the last being the source of the Chinese ethnonym Hezhe. The language is distributed across several distantly-located areas:

It is thought that in Russia, the Nanai language has been best preserved in the Nanai District of Khabarovsk Krai, because of the active Nanai-speaking community there, which has been active in working on the publication of books in Nanai, as well as textbooks on the language, and also because of the ethnic autonomous status of the Nanai District. According to Stolyarov's data, the world-wide..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Nanai Language Speakers

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Overview

Main Country: Russia
Spoken In:

Regions: Asia

ISO 639-3 Code: gld

Classification Taxonomy

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  Altaic Group

    Tungus Group

      Southern Tungus Group

        Southeast Southern Group

          Nanaj Group

            Nanai Language