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Key facts
- Russia khabarovsk krai
- 11,623
- China heilongjiang
- 5,373
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Part of
- Tungusic peoples
- Named after
- shagreen
- Languages spoken
- Nanai
- Native language
- Nanai
- Religion
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Sakha
- Population
- 5373
- Image
- Nanai children.jpg
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- Nanai people
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- Category:Nanai people
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- нанай, хэдзэни
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Encyclopedic overview
The Nanai people (Russian: нанайцы, romanized: nanaitsy) are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along the Amur (Heilongjiang), Songhua (Sunggari) and Ussuri (Wusuli) rivers on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Wild Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria, which is now the region of Outer Manchuria in Russia's Far Eastern Federal District.
The Nanai language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic family. According to the 2010 census there were 12,003 Nanai in Russia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nanai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.