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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<2,500

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Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<2,500

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

Very few

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

8,196

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

China

Coordinates

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Location description

Northeastern Inner Mongolia and Northwestern Heilongjiang Province

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

No data

Other writing systems

Northeastern Inner Mongolia and Northwestern Heilongjiang Province

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

48.166,119.4873

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

Domains of Use

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

8,196

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

1,200 (2002 L. Whaley). 800 are monolingual. Ethnic population: 8,196 (2000 census).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

China; Russia

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Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

480

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

1,551

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

In 1979 31% of the ethnic population of 1,551, were considered to be native speakers which is approximately 480.

Year of info

1993

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

Coordinates

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Location description

The Udeghes are scattered over an extensive area in the Khabarovsk region and in the Ussuri taiga, in the northern part of the Primorye region. They have no compact settled area. They live in the neighbourhood of the Nanais and the Nivkhs and in places are mixed with them.

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The Udeghes are scattered over an extensive area in the Khabarovsk region and in the Ussuri taiga, in the northern part of the Primorye region. They have no compact settled area. They live in the neighbourhood of the Nanais and the Nivkhs and in places are mixed with them.

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Primary education in the mother tongue began as early as 1931, when the first school textbooks in the Udeghe language appeared. As elsewhere in the Soviet Union, this process had subsided by the late 1930s and another attempt to create a new Udeghe alphabet was made only in the late 1970s. Nowadays, the mother tongue is again taught in some schools, but only as an optional subject.

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

< 2,000

Domains of Use

No data

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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Child speakers

very few, if any

Young adult speakers

No data

Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

~ 5,000

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

China

Coordinates

No data

Location description

Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang Province

Government support

No data

Institutional support

No data

Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

No data

Script (Writing system)

IPA

Other writing systems

Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang Province

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Other languages used

Mandarin Chinese

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No data

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"on a tentative basis and with poor results, the language has been taught at a few elementary schools (in IPA transcription); Chinese (Mandarin) is becoming the main language within both monoethnic and multiethnic families"

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

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