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Nanai

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Also known as Hezhen language, Gold language, Nanai language, gld

Tungusic language spoken by Nanai people in Northeast Asia

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Native to
Russia , China
Region
Russian Far East , Heilongjiang
Ethnicity
Nanai people
Native speakers
1,400 (2010)
Language family
Tungusic Southern Nanaic Nanai
Dialects
Nanai Akani Birar Samagir
Writing system
Cyrillic
Iso 639 3
gld
Glottolog
nana1257
Elp
Nanai

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native label
На̄най хэсэни
number of speakers, writers, or signers
1390
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Hezhe (Nanai) family The Nanai language (also called Gold, Goldi, or Hezhen) is spoken by the Nanai people in Siberia, and to a much smaller extent in China's Heilongjiang province, where it is known as Hezhe. The language has about 1,400 speakers out of 17,000 ethnic Nanai, but most (especially the younger generations) are also fluent in Russian or Chinese, and mostly use one of those languages for communication.

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