Udege language


The Udege 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:
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 monophthongisation of diphthongs, denasalisation of nasal vowels, deletion of reduced final vowels, epenthetic vowels preventing consonant final words, and the deletion of intervocalic .

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

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

is an allophone of.