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Source 1
Source 2
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia

Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html

Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
<500
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 5

A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.

5
Transmission

Transmission 3

Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.

3
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
No results found.
Second-language speakers and learners
No results found.
Semi-speakers or rememberers
No results found.
Children:
No results found.
Young adults
0
Older adults
No results found.
Elders
No results found.
Ethnic or community population
~2,500
Year information was gathered
No results found.
Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: increasingly rudimentary, with strong interference from Russian

Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description

in the mouth region of the Amur, within Khabarovsk Region (Krai) of the Russian Far East

Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
No results found.
Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None

Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
No results text.
Comments on writing systems:
There is a little-used written standard (in Cyrillic script), separate from that of Sakhalin Nivkh.

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