Udege
Sign in to saveAlso known as Udihe, Udekhe language, Udeghe language, Udihe language, Udege language
Tungusic language spoken by the Udeges in Northeast Asia
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Russian Far East
- Ethnicity
- 1,325 Udeges (2020 census)
- Native speakers
- 674 (2020 census)
- Language family
- Tungusic Northern Udegheic Udege
- Dialects
- Kur-Urmi Northern Southern/Kyakala
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Iso 639 3
- ude
- Glottolog
- udih1248
- Elp
- Udege
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Encyclopedic overview
Udege (also known as Udihe, Udekhe and Udeghe) is the language of the Udege people. It is a member of the Tungusic family. It is a moribund language, and classified as critically endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
Ethnonyms
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Udege” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.