• Severely endangered

  80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• <500

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  ~2,500

• CHILDREN

  0

• YOUNG ADULTS

  0

DATE OF INFO

1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Russian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

degree of speakers' competence: increasingly rudimentary, with strong interference from Russian

Scripts (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

More on Orthography

There is a little-used written standard (in Cyrillic script), separate from that of Sakhalin Nivkh.

PLACES

Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

in the mouth region of the Amur, within Khabarovsk Region (Krai) of the Russian Far East