Taz dialect

Taz
Тазы хуаюй
Tazi huayü
RegionRussian Far East
Ethnicity274 Taz people[1] (2010 census)[2]
Native speakers
(undated figure of <10)[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone

Taz is a dialect of Northeastern Mandarin spoken by the Taz people of the Russian Far East.[4] There are a few loanwords from Tungusic languages, but no obvious Tungusic effect on the grammar.[5]

Taz is largely mutually intelligible with Mandarin. In 1992, some Chinese bought ginseng from the Taz. They spoke Standard Chinese and Taz, respectively, and could understand one other. What they did not understand were mainly place names and social terms.[5]

  1. ^ "Tazy" Тазы. Etnic.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2010census was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Тазовский китайский язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  4. ^ "Tazy" Тазы. Assotsiatsiya korennykh malochislennykh narodov Severa, Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka Rossiyskoy Federatsii (AKMNSS i DV RF) Ассоциация коренных малочисленных народов Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока Российской Федерации (АКМНСС и ДВ РФ) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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