Udege language

language
name=Udege
states=Russia
region=Russian Far East
speakers=100 out of 1600 in ethnic group (1991) [Gordon 2005: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ude Udege] ]
familycolor=Altaic
fam1=Altaic [Gordon 2005: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90009 Altaic] ] (controversial)
fam2=Tungusic
fam3=Southern
fam4=Southeastern
iso1=
iso2=
iso3=ude

The Udege language (also Udihe language, Udekhe language) is a language of the Tungusic family. It 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]
* [IPA|dœlbo] (work), from Nanai [IPA|dœbo] , instead of Udege [etete]
* [IPA|daŋsa] (book) from Nanai [IPA|daŋsa] , itself a loanword from Chinese 單子 (Pinyin: unicode|"dānzi"), which actually means "list"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] . [Nikolaeva 2001: 24]

Orthography

"1931-1937 alphabet"

Notes

See also

* Udege people

Bibliography

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