Also Known As:
Manchurian Solon, Solon Evenki, 索倫語, 索倫鄂溫克, 輝河方言, 鄂溫克語輝方言
Dialects & Varieties
- Nonni (Nenjiang) Solon
- Tsitsikar (Qiqihaer) Solon
- Hailar Solon
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
Threatened
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
>15,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
2
Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
1
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~20,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"generally fluent within those communities still retaining the language; unidirectional bilingualism in Dagur is very common, possibly universal"
Location and Context
Countries
central and northwestern Manchuria, China
Location Description
administratively divided between Hulun Buir Aimak, Inner Mongolia (in the Imin basin), and the province of Heilongjiang (in the Nonni basin); officially concentrated in the Ewenke Autonomous Banner of Hulun Buir
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Dagur; Chinese; Mongolian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Mongolian, Roman, IPA
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"the function of literary languages is fulfilled by both Chinese and Modern Written Mongolian; attempts have also been made to write Solon in various systems of transcription (Mongolian, Roman, IPA)"
Recent Resources
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