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UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~10,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

~30,000

Non-monolingual speakers

almost all

More about speakers

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Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Siberia

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Location description

The widest-spread language of Siberia, spoken by a population sparsely covering the whole taiga zone from the Yenisei in the west to the lower Amur and Sakhalin in the east, and from Taimyr and the lower Lena in the north to Baikal and the upper Amur in the south; a small group of speakers, known as the Manchurian Reindeer Tungus (often erroneously called "Yakut"), live on the Chinese side of the upper Amur.

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

Other writing systems

The widest-spread language of Siberia, spoken by a population sparsely covering the whole taiga zone from the Yenisei in the west to the lower Amur and Sakhalin in the east, and from Taimyr and the lower Lena in the north to Baikal and the upper Amur in the south; a small group of speakers, known as the Manchurian Reindeer Tungus (often erroneously called "Yakut"), live on the Chinese side of the upper Amur.

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Other languages used

Russian

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

21,584

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

48.166,119.4873

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Government support

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<13,500

Domains of Use

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Evenki has the following speakers per dialect: Ewenk <1,000; Solon <10,000; Oroqen <2,500.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

China

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Location description

Northeastern Inner Mongolia

Government support

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Institutional support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Northeastern Inner Mongolia

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Other languages used

Daur Mongol, Chinese

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

27,615

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

30,500

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

19,000 in China (1999 D. Chaoke). 3,000 monolinguals. Huihe 14,300, Aoluguya 150, Chenba’erhu 1,600. Population total all countries: 27,615. Ethnic population: 30,500 (2000 census)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Mongolia; China; Russia

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Government support

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

12,093

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

30,233

Non-monolingual speakers

75.2 % of the Evenk were fluent in Russian

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Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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Other languages used

Russian

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

48.0,120.0

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

29,000

Domains of Use

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