Manchu
E111209
Manchu is a Tungusic language historically spoken by the Manchu people of Northeast Asia, once the ruling ethnic group of China’s Qing dynasty and now critically endangered.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manchu canonical | 54 |
| Manchu language | 11 |
| Manchu people | 8 |
| Manchus | 5 |
| Jurchen language | 2 |
| Jurchen people | 1 |
| Manchu culture | 1 |
| Manchu tribes | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tungusic language
ⓘ
critically endangered language ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| country | China ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| endangermentStatusSource | UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupUsers |
Manchu
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Manchu people
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| glottocode | manc1252 ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case marking by suffixes
ⓘ
derivational verbal morphology ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ postpositions ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | Written Mongolian orthography conventions ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
rich consonant inventory
ⓘ
vowel harmony (reduced) ⓘ |
| hasVariety | Sibe language ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
East Asia
ⓘ
surface form:
Northeast Asia
|
| historicalStatus |
administrative language of the Qing dynasty
ⓘ
court language of the Qing dynasty ⓘ official language of the Qing dynasty ⓘ |
| historicalUsePeriod | 17th century to early 20th century as major written language ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chinese
ⓘ
Classical Mongolian script ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Mongolian
|
| ISO639-2Code | mnc ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | mnc ⓘ |
| isStudiedIn |
Manchu studies
ⓘ
Sinology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tungusic languages ⓘ |
| morphologyType | suffixing ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakersTrend | declining ⓘ |
| region |
Manchuria
ⓘ
Manchuria ⓘ
surface form:
Northeast China
|
| revitalizationEfforts |
community-based language classes in China
ⓘ
university courses internationally ⓘ |
| scriptDirection |
left-to-right columns
ⓘ
top-to-bottom ⓘ vertical ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Tungusic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Tungusic
|
| typology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative documents in Qing China
ⓘ
bilingual Manchu-Chinese archives ⓘ imperial edicts in Qing China ⓘ military documents in Qing China ⓘ translation of Chinese classics ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
Manchu script ⓘ Mongolian script-derived alphabet ⓘ |
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