Nanai
Sign in to saveTungusic language spoken by Nanai people in Northeast Asia
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia , China
- Region
- Russian Far East , Heilongjiang
- Ethnicity
- Nanai people
- Native speakers
- 1,400 (2010)
- Language family
- Tungusic Southern Nanaic Nanai
- Dialects
- Nanai Akani Birar Samagir
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Iso 639 3
- gld
- Glottolog
- nana1257
- Elp
- Nanai
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Hezhe (Nanai) family The Nanai language (also called Gold, Goldi, or Hezhen) 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 1,400 speakers out of 17,000 ethnic Nanai, but most (especially the younger generations) are also fluent in Russian or Chinese, and mostly use one of those languages for communication.
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