- Taz people
Ethnic group
group=Taz
(Тазы)
poptime=276 (2002)
popplace=Russia : 276 (2002)
langs=Russian, Taz
rels=
related=Udege The Taz (Russian: "plural" Тазы, transliterated Tazy) primarily live in
Russia . They formed in 1880s, from intermarriages betweenUdege ,Nanai and Chinese. The Taz speak Russian and theTaz language (a Chinese dialect with some words from Udege and Nanai). In 1880s were around 1,050 Taz speakers, but nowadays only elders speak the language [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:F22ZKuLijFEJ:lingsib.unesco.ru/ru/languages/statistics_ru.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=10] .According to the
Russian Census of 2002 the total Taz population numbered 276, of them:- 276 spoke Russian [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:F22ZKuLijFEJ:lingsib.unesco.ru/ru/languages/statistics_ru.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=10] ;
- 131 were males (53 urban, 78 rural) and 145 females (57 urban, 88 rural) [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:shCkWxzHXMkJ:www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_01.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=3] ;
- 110 were urban (53 males, 57 females) and 166 rural (78 males, 88 females) [http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:shCkWxzHXMkJ:www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_01.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=3] .
In the
Republic of Bashkortostan , 4 people identified themselves as Taz [http://www.bashstat.ru/Docs/Itogi/bull02.shtm] .In
Khabarovsk Krai , 3 people identified themselves as Taz - one male and two females, all of them living in urban areas [http://www.khabstat.ru/peripis2002/index.php?page=11] .
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