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Udege language

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Native to
  
Russia

Native speakers
  
100 (2010 census)

Region
  
Russian Far East

ISO 639-3
  
ude

Ethnicity
  
1,500 Udeges (2010 census)

Language family
  
Tungusic Northern Oroch–Udege Udege

The Udege language (also Udihe language, Udekhe language, Udeghe language) is the language of the Udege people. It is a member of the Tungusic family.

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Vocabulary

Udege contains a variety of loanwords from the closely related Nanai language, which have supplanted some older Udege vocabulary, such as:

  • [banixe] (thank you), from Nanai [banixa], instead of Udege [usasa]
  • [dœlbo] (work), from Nanai [dœbo], instead of Udege [etete]
  • [daŋsa] (book) from Nanai [daŋsa], itself a loanword from Chinese 檔子 (Pinyin: dāngzi), which actually means "file, records, archives"

    • In general, a large degree of mutual assimilation of the two languages has been observed in the Bikin region. Udege has also exerted phonological influence on the Bikin dialect of Nanai, including monopthongisation of diphthongs, denasalisation of nasal vowels, deletion of reduced final vowels, epenthetic vowel preventing consonant final words, and the deletion of intervocalic [w].

    Orthography

    1931-1937 alphabet

    References

    Udege language Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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