Oroch language

Oroch
Oroch
Орочи кэсэни
Native to	Russia
Region	Russian Far East
Ethnicity	600 Orochs (2010 census)
Native speakers	8 (2010 census)
Language family	Tungusic Udegheic Oroch Group Oroch; ; ;
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	oac
Glottolog	oroc1248
ELP	Oroch

The Oroch language is an endangered language spoken by the Oroch people in Siberia. It is a member of the southern group of the Tungusic languages and is closely related to the Nanai language and Udege language. It is spoken in the Khabarovsk Krai (Komsomolsky, Sovetskaya Gavan, and Ulchsky districts). The language is split into three dialects: Tumninsky, Khadinsky, and Hungarisky. At the beginning of the 21st century, a written form of the language was created.

Orthography[]

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж
З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м	Н н	Ӈ ӈ
О о	П п	Р р	С с	Т т	У у	Ф ф	Х х
Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э
Ю ю	Я я

Phonology[]

Vowels^[2]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː ʊ ʊː
Mid		ə əː	ɔ ɔː
Open	æː	a aː

Consonants^[3]
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k
Plosive	voiced	b	d	dʒ~ʒ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s		x
Fricative	voiced	v			ɣ
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Approximant				j

References[]

^ ^a ^b Oroch at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Avrorin & Boldyrev (2001)
^ Avrorin (2001)

Bibliography[]

Abramova, G. S. (2002). Illustrated Dictionary of the Oroch Language (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Drofa.
Avrorin, V. A. (В. А. Авронин); Boldyrev, B. V. (Б. В. Болдырев) (2001). Grammatika orochskogo yazyka Грамматика орочского языка [An Oroch grammar] (in Russian). Novosibirsk: SO RAN. ISBN 5-7692-0396-X.
Альбина Гирфанова (1994). "Орочский язык". Контактологический энциклопедический словарь-справочник: Северный регион. Языки народов Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока в контактах с русским языком. М. (1). (in Russian)

External links[]

Unesco – Oroch language (In Russian)

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[e18-1] Oroch at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Avrorin & Boldyrev (2001)

[3] Avrorin (2001)

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