Negidal language

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Negidal
Spoken in	Russia
Region	Russian Far East
Total speakers	100-175
Language family	Altaic[1] (disputed) Tungusic Northern Negidal
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	neg
ISO 639-3	neg
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Negidal (also known as Negidaly, Neghidal) is a language of the Tungusic family spoken in the Russian Far East along the lower reaches of the Amur River. It is nearing extinction. There are two dialects: Upper dialect and Lower dialect, the latter of which is influenced by the Evenki language.

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• Ethnologue entry for Negidal
• Kazama, Shinjiro (October 2002). "ネギダール語 テキストと文法概説 (Negidal Texts and Grammar)". ツングース言語文化論集 (Publications on Tungus languages and cultures) 19.  With CD.
• Cincius, V.I. (1982). Негидальский язык (The Negidal language). 

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