Negidals

Negidals (, "local people"; , negidaltsy) are an Indigenous ethnic group in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, who live along the Amgun River and Amur River.

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Ethnic group.group: Negidals
Ethnic group.image: Negidals.jpg
Ethnic group.image_caption: Negidals in the upper reaches of the Amgun
Ethnic group.population: 533
Ethnic group.pop1: 481
Ethnic group.pop2: 52
Ethnic group.languages: Negidal language
Ethnic group.religions: Shamanism
Ethnic group.related: Nanais, Ulchs

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Negidals (, "local people"; , negidaltsy) are an Indigenous ethnic group in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, who live along the Amgun River and Amur River.

The ethnonym "Negidal" is a Russian rendering of the Ewenki term ngegida, which means "coastal people".

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