Solon language

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The Solon language is a Tungusic language spoken primarily by the Solon Evenki people in northeastern China.

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Solon language canonical 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tungusic language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Even language
Evenki language
country China
surface form: People's Republic of China
endangermentFactors assimilation policies in 20th century China
language shift to Mandarin Chinese
ethnicGroup Evenki people
Solon people
family Tungusic languages
hasCaseSystem yes
hasDialect Evenki language
surface form: Solon dialect of Evenki
hasVowelHarmony yes
ISO639-3 evn
languageFamilyBranch Altaic languages (proposed)
surface form: Altaic (proposed, controversial)
languageStatus endangered language
morphology rich suffixal morphology
partOf Evenki macrolanguage
region Manchuria
surface form: Northeast China
spokenBy Evenki people
surface form: Solon Evenki people
spokenIn China
Heilongjiang
surface form: Heilongjiang Province

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
surface form: Inner Mongolia

Manchuria
surface form: northeastern China
subfamily Tungusic languages
surface form: Northern Tungusic languages
typology agglutinative language
usedBy reindeer herders (historically)
wordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb)
writingSystem Cyrillic script (limited use, non‑standardized)
Latin script (romanization, non‑standardized)

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Tungusic languages hasMemberLanguage Solon language