Key facts
- Native to
- Russia , Japan
- Region
- Sakhalin Oblast ( Russian Far East ), Hokkaido
- Ethnicity
- 300 Orok (2010 census)
- Native speakers
- 8–10 (2019–2025) , 116 (2020 census)
- Language family
- Tungusic Southern Nanaic Uilta
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Iso 639 3
- oaa
- Glottolog
- orok1265
- Elp
- Orok
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Encyclopedic overview
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Uilta (Orok: ульта, also called Ulta, Ujlta, or Orok) is a Tungusic language spoken in the Poronaysky and Nogliksky Administrative Divisions of Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Federation, by the Uilta people. The northern Uilta who live along the river of Tym’ and around the village of Val have reindeer herding as one of their traditional occupations. The southern Uilta live along the Poronay near the city of Poronaysk. The language is split in two dialects with very few differences: northern Doronneni and southern Poronaysk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orok” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.