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2 unusual facts about Nanai language


Nanai language

Kur-Urmi dialect: the area around the city of Khabarovsk (the Kur and Urmi rivers, and the Khabarovsk District of Khabarovsk Krai); probably not Nanai or even Southern Tungusic (see Kili language)

Lipskoy-Val'rond's classification, which distinguishes seven dialects, is one example of this; he distinguished the Sungari, Upper Amur, Ussuri, Urmi, Kur, Central Amur, and Lower Amur dialects.


Northeastern Mandarin

A form of Northeastern Mandarin (with some words from Udege and Nanai) is apoken by the Taz people nearby in the far east of Russia, primarily in Primorsky Krai.


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