Nanai language

Nanai
на̄най, на̄ни
Native to	Russia, China
Region	Russian Far East, Heilongjiang
Ethnicity	Nanai people
Native speakers	1,400 (2010)[1]
Language family	Tungusic Southern Nanaic Nanai
Dialects	Nanai Akani Birar Samagir
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gld
Glottolog	nana1257
ELP	Nanai
Nanay is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Nanai language (also called Gold, Goldi, or Hezhen) is spoken by the Nanai people in Siberia, and to a much smaller extent in China's Heilongjiang province, where it is known as Hezhe. The language has about 1,400 speakers out of 17,000 ethnic Nanai, but most (especially the younger generations) are also fluent in Russian or Chinese, and mostly use one of those languages for communication.^[2]