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- Title
Tungusic: an endangered language family in Northeast Asia.
- Authors
Janhunen, Juha
- Abstract
Languages of the Tungusic family are historically spoken all over Northeast Asia, including Siberia, Manchuria, and Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang). Most importantly, the Tungusic family includes Manchu, the official administrative language of China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Due to the impact of Chinese and Russian, Tungusic languages have been rapidly losing ground, and there are today only two potentially viable groups speaking Tungusic: the Manchu-speaking Sibe (Xibo) in Xinjiang and the Ewenki-speaking Solon (Ewenke) in Northern Inner Mongolia (Western Manchuria). In both cases, the language could only be saved by drastic positive measures at the national and international levels.
- Subjects
TUNGUS-Manchu languages; ALTAIC languages; ENDANGERED languages; LANGUAGE obsolescence; LANGUAGES in China
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2005, Vol 2005, Issue 173, p37
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.2005.2005.173.37