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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
About Vitality Level
~500
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

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Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.

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Transmission

Transmission 4

Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.

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Speakers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~1,900
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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.

Location and Context
Countries
Russia
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

Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Chinese
Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
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