The endangered state of Negidal: A field report
Negidal is a Northern Tungusic language closely related to Evenki with two recognized dialects, Upper and Lower Negidal. This nearly extinct language used to be spoken in the Lower Amur region of the Russian Far East by people whose traditional way of life was based on fishing and hunting. While the...
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ftolac:oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24760 2023-05-15T16:09:09+02:00 The endangered state of Negidal: A field report Pakendorf, Brigitte Aralova, Natalia 2018-02 14 pages http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24760 unknown University of Hawaii Press http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24760 Pakendorf, Brigitte, Aralova, Natalia; 2018-02; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24760. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC-BY-NC Tungusic language extinction last speakers Amur river Text Article 2018 ftolac 2020-05-27T15:28:28Z Negidal is a Northern Tungusic language closely related to Evenki with two recognized dialects, Upper and Lower Negidal. This nearly extinct language used to be spoken in the Lower Amur region of the Russian Far East by people whose traditional way of life was based on fishing and hunting. While the number of remaining active speakers of Upper Negidal was more or less known, the current state of Lower Negidal was still uncertain. We here report on a trip to ascertain the state of Lower Negidal and give a precise assessment of the linguistic situation of both dialects. While the Upper dialect is still represented by seven elderly female speakers, varying in proficiency from fully fluent to barely able to produce a narrative, not a single active speaker of Lower Negidal is left. The language will therefore probably be extinct in the next decade or two. pakendorf_aralova.pdf Article in Journal/Newspaper Evenki OLAC: Open Language Archives Community Evenki ENVELOPE(132.817,132.817,59.683,59.683) |
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Tungusic language extinction last speakers Amur river Pakendorf, Brigitte Aralova, Natalia The endangered state of Negidal: A field report |
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Negidal is a Northern Tungusic language closely related to Evenki with two recognized dialects, Upper and Lower Negidal. This nearly extinct language used to be spoken in the Lower Amur region of the Russian Far East by people whose traditional way of life was based on fishing and hunting. While the number of remaining active speakers of Upper Negidal was more or less known, the current state of Lower Negidal was still uncertain. We here report on a trip to ascertain the state of Lower Negidal and give a precise assessment of the linguistic situation of both dialects. While the Upper dialect is still represented by seven elderly female speakers, varying in proficiency from fully fluent to barely able to produce a narrative, not a single active speaker of Lower Negidal is left. The language will therefore probably be extinct in the next decade or two. pakendorf_aralova.pdf |
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Pakendorf, Brigitte Aralova, Natalia |
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The endangered state of Negidal: A field report |
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The endangered state of Negidal: A field report |
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The endangered state of Negidal: A field report |
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The endangered state of Negidal: A field report |
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endangered state of negidal: a field report |
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University of Hawaii Press |
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