Jurchen language

Jurchen
A silver pass with the Jurchen inscription gurun ni xada-xun, meaning "Trust of the Country".
Region	Southwest Manchuria (Northeastern China)
Ethnicity	Jurchen
Era	developed into Manchu c. 17th century
Language family	Tungusic Southern Jurchenic Jurchen
Writing system	Jurchen script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	juc
Linguist List	juc.html
Glottolog	jurc1239

The Jurchen language (Chinese: 女真語; pinyin: Nǚzhēn yǔ) was the Tungusic language of the Jurchen people of eastern Manchuria, the rulers of the Jin dynasty in northern China of the 12th and 13th centuries. It is ancestral to the Manchu language. In 1635 Hong Taiji renamed the Jurchen ethnicity and language to "Manchu".