Manchu

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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

How this entity was disambiguated

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
surface form: Manchu people
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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Referenced by (83)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Manchu script usedFor Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu language
Manchu script historicallyUsedBy Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu people
Later Jin language Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu language
Later Jin demonym Manchu
Fushun ethnicComposition Manchu
Benxi ethnicGroupPresent Manchu
Jurchen script modernDescendantLanguage Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu language
Yehenara ethnicity Manchu
Yehenara languageCommunity Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu language
Yehenara culture Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu culture
Huizheng ethnicGroup Manchu
Huizheng languageSpoken Manchu
Noble Consort Yi ethnicity Manchu
Noble Consort Yi language Manchu
Jurchen predecessorOf Manchu
Jurchen ethnogenesisInto Manchu
this entity surface form: Manchu people
Jurchen laterNameUnderQing Manchu
Tongzhi Emperor language Manchu
Empress Nara ethnicity Manchu
Yonglian ethnicity Manchu
Yongqi ethnicity Manchu
Yongqi language Manchu
Yongcong ethnicity Manchu
Yongcheng ethnicity Manchu
Yongcheng language Manchu