Udege language

The Udege language (also Udihe language, Udekhe language, Udeghe language) is the language of the Udege people.  It is a member of the Tungusic family.  A few older letters that were used in this language: Ж ж, З з, Љ љ, Ц ц, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, ‘Ы ‘ы, Ы̄ ы̄, Ы̂ ы̂, Ю ю, ‘Ю ‘ю, Ю̄ ю̄, Ю̂ ю̂, Я я, ‘Я ‘я, Я̄ я̄, Я̂ я̂

Vocabulary
Udege contains a variety of loanwords from the closely related Nanai language, which have supplanted some older Udege vocabulary, such as:

 [banixe] (thank you), from Nanai [banixa], instead of Udege [usasa]
  (work), from Nanai , instead of Udege 
  (book) from Nanai , itself a loanword from Chinese 檔子 (Pinyin: dāngzi), which actually means "file, records, archives"
In general, a large degree of mutual assimilation of the two languages has been observed in the Bikin region.  Udege has also exerted phonological influence on the Bikin dialect of Nanai, including monopthongisation of diphthongs, denasalisation of nasal vowels, deletion of reduced final vowels, epenthetic vowel preventing consonant final words, and the deletion of intervocalic [w]. 

Orthography
1931-1937 alphabet

The Udege alphabet is currently written in two versions of the Cyrillic alphabet, known respectively as the "Petersburg" and the "Khabarovsk" versions.  The Khabarovsk version is used more often. 

Cyrillic alphabet (Khabarovsk version)

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants 

/z/ is an allophone of /d͡z/.

Notes

Bibliography

External links
 Chukchi fairy tales in Udihe (Udehe) and English
 Максим Руссо.  Карта языков России: удэгейский (Полит.ру, 10 марта 2019) 

Category:Agglutinative languages
Category:Tungusic languages
Category:Languages of Russia
Category:Khabarovsk Krai
Category:Endangered languages