нанай, нани, хэдзэни | |
|---|---|
 Nanai children. Girls are in traditional costume "pokto". | |
| Total population | |
| c. 18,000 (est.) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Russia, China | |
 Russia
| 11,623[1] |
 China (Heilongjiang) | 5,354[2] |
| Languages | |
| Nanai, Russian (in Russia), Mandarin Chinese (in China) | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Shamanism Minority: .svg){kind=small} Tibetan Buddhism  Russian Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Evenks, Oroqen, Manchus, Udege, other Tungusic peoples | |
The Nanai people (Russian: нанайцы, romanized: nanaitsy) are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang (Sunggari) and Wusuli River (Ussuri)[3] on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Wild Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria (outside China- Russian Manchuria).
The Nanai language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic family. According to the 2010 census there were 12,003 Nanai in Russia.
- ^ "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China [1] (2010)
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 213.