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Native Speakers Worldwide

<100

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Language Information By Source

Europe and North Asia
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<100

Domains of Use

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Speakers

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Elder Speakers

<100

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Siberia

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Spoken in the southern and central sections of the Sikhote Alin mountain range, to the east of the Ussuri river, now mainly concentrated in four villages: Krasnyy Yar in Pozharskoye County and Agzu in Terney County in Maritime (Primor’ye) Region, and Gvasyugi in the County of Lazo and Arsen’yevo (Rassvet) in Nanay County in Khabarovsk Region in the Russian Federation.

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Spoken in the southern and central sections of the Sikhote Alin mountain range, to the east of the Ussuri river, now mainly concentrated in four villages: Krasnyy Yar in Pozharskoye County and Agzu in Terney County in Maritime (Primor’ye) Region, and Gvasyugi in the County of Lazo and Arsen’yevo (Rassvet) in Nanay County in Khabarovsk Region in the Russian Federation.

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Other languages used

Russian

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

47.6209,136.0903

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

230

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

1,657

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

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Location description

Siberia far east: Lazo region; Nanai region; Pozharsk region; Terneisk region

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Siberia far east: Lazo region; Nanai region; Pozharsk region; Terneisk region

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Ethnic Population

2,011

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In 1979 it was reported that 31%% of the ethnic population were native speakers.

Year of info

1993

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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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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

47.6666666667,136.25

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~500

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Ethnic Population

~1,900

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

Russia

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Location description

in the southern and central sections of the Sikhote Alin mountain range, to the east of the Ussuri river, within the Maritime and Khabarovsk Regions (Krai) of the Russian Far East

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in the southern and central sections of the Sikhote Alin mountain range, to the east of the Ussuri river, within the Maritime and Khabarovsk Regions (Krai) of the Russian Far East

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Other languages used

Russian, Chinese

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Degree of speakers' competence: rapidly deteriorating, with many characteristic features of the language already lost; the current process of language death is taking place in favour of Russian, but assimilation by Chinese (Mandarin) seems also to have been of relevance in the past.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

100

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