Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Nanai

SOURCE

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Russian Federation

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Nanai

Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

12.003

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Currently the Nanai people inhabit mainly the Khabarovsk Territory. Some groups of people live in Primorye and Sakhalin. The Sakhalin Nanai people are back-settlers from Amur. By the beginning of 2012 there were 203 back-settlers. Some Nanai people (Hezhe) inhabit a part of northeast China.

BACKGROUND

The Nanai language belongs to the group of the Manchu-Tungus languages. The script on the basis of the Cyrillic is used in Russia.