Lower Amur Nanai

E1001813

Lower Amur Nanai is a regional dialect of the Tungusic Nanai language traditionally spoken by Nanai communities along the lower reaches of the Amur River in the Russian Far East.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
lower Amur River 3
Lower Amur Nanai canonical 1
Lower Amur region 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo Middle Amur Nanai
Upper Amur Nanai
country Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
endangermentCause Russification policies
intergenerational language break
urbanization
hasAlternativeName Lower Amur dialect of Nanai
Lower Amur variety of Nanai
hasAncestor Proto-Nanai
linked to: Proto-Tungusic

Proto-Tungusic
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasContactLanguage Nivkh
Russian
Ulch
hasDomain folklore
oral tradition
traditional fishing culture
hasEthnicGroup Nanai people
hasGlottologClassification Tungusic
hasLanguageBranch Southern Tungusic
linked to: Tungusic languages
hasLanguageFamily Tungusic
hasMorphologyType suffixing
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel harmony
hasTypology agglutinative
isSpokenByMinority true
isVarietyOf Nanai
languageOf Nanai communities along the lower Amur
languageShiftTo Russian
languageStatus endangered
severely endangered
linguisticArea Amur-Ussuri region
linked to: Russia Far East
partOf Nanai language
spokenAlong Lower Amur River
spokenIn Russia
Russian Far East
linked to: Russia Far East
subclassOf Tungusic language variety
subjectOf fieldwork in Tungusic linguistics
traditionalRegion Khabarovsk Krai
lower reaches of the Amur River
usedBy Nanai elders
usedIn Nanai epic songs
Nanai shamanic practices
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nanai language hasDialects Lower Amur Nanai
Ulch language spokenAlong lower Amur River
linked to: Lower Amur Nanai
Nanai historicalRegion Lower Amur region
linked to: Lower Amur Nanai
Ulch traditionalRegion lower Amur River
linked to: Lower Amur Nanai
Nivkh traditionalRegion lower Amur River
linked to: Lower Amur Nanai