Udege language

Udege
Native to Russia
Region Russian Far East
Ethnicity 1,500 Udeges (2010 census)[1]
Native speakers
100 (2010 census)[1]
Tungusic
  • Northern

    • Oroch–Udege
      • Udege
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ude
Glottolog udih1248[2]

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.

Vocabulary

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

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].[3]

Orthography

1931-1937 alphabet

A a Ā ā B в Є є D d Ӡ ӡ E e Ē ē
Æ æ F f G g H h I i Ī ī J j K k
L l M m N n Ņ ņ Ŋ ŋ O o Ō ō Ө ө
P p R r S s T t U u Ū ū W w X x
Y y Z z

Notes

  1. 1 2 Udege at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Udihe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nikolaeva & Tolskaya 2001, p. 24

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