Also Known As:
Gold, Nanaj, Hezhen, Goldi, Hezhe, Heche, Sushen, Juchen, Goldisch, nānai, Akani, Birar, Kile, Samagir, Goldische, Nanay, 赫哲語, 那乃語, 赫真語, Нанай, Нанайэ, Nanaj, Nanaje, нанайский языкж
Dialects & Varieties
- Kuro-Urmi
- Samagir
- Ussuri
- Torgon
- Sunggari
- Birar
- Kila
- Akani
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~5,800
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
4
Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
4
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
No results found.
Second-language speakers and learners
No results found.
Semi-speakers or rememberers
No results found.
Children:
No results found.
Young adults
possibly none
Older adults
No results found.
Elders
No results found.
Ethnic or community population
~12,000
Year information was gathered
No results found.
Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: rapidly deteriorating, with Russian being used as the principal idiom of communication within the ethnic group
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
in the middle and lower Amur basin, within the Khabarovsk Region (Krai) of the Russian Far East
Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
No results found.
Other Languages Used By The Community
None
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
No results text.
Comments on writing systems:
There is a written standard (in Cyrillic script) used for native language teaching at schools, but the language of instruction is Russian.
Recent Resources
Nanai-Russian dictionary contains 12,800 words most frequently used.
The paper is devoted to the contemporary sociolinguistic situation of Nanai language (one of Tungusi