ISO 639-3 · gldgld
Tungusic family
Nanai
На̄най хэсэни
Nanai is a language of the Central Tungusic branch (Tungusic), spoken in Russia and China. Wikidata counts about 1,390 speakers (2010). Wikidata describes it as “Tungusic language spoken by Nanai people in Northeast Asia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
gld- Glottocode
nana1257- Family
- Tungusic
- EGIDS
- 8a Moribund
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 48 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
2levels in the tree
8aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Nanai · На̄най хэсэни |
|---|---|
| Also called | Hezhen language, Gold language, Nanai language, gld |
| All speakers | 1,390 (2010) |
| Written in | Cyrillic, Nanai alphabet |
Vitality
EGIDS 8a Moribund8a
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Tungusic to Nanai
The branches above Nanai, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Russia
deuGermanIndo-European · 135 m1 · NationalrusRussianIndo-European · 110 m1 · NationalkorKoreanKoreanic · 73.2 m1 · NationalfasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeukrUkrainianIndo-European · 34.7 m1 · NationalkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationalazjNorth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 9.2 m1 · NationalbulBulgarianIndo-European · 9 m1 · NationalbelBelarusianIndo-European · 7.9 m1 · National