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Ulch

Tungusic language spoken by the Ulch people in Northeast Asia
Class type of: Central‑Western Tungusic Q13239

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[3]
Country
Russia[2]
Subclass of
Central‑Western Tungusic[4]
Ethnologue language status
8a Moribund[14]
Indigenous to
Ulch people, Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Ulchsky District[10][11][12][13]
Linguistic typology
agglutinative language[15]
Native label
Нāн'и хэсэни[8]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+154, +732[6][7]
UNESCO language status
5 critically endangered[9]
Writing system
Cyrillic script[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ulcha language en Ulch language en Olcha en Ulch de Ultschisch de ultschische Sprache fi ultša fi ultšan kieli fr oultche id Bahasa Ulch it lingua ulch ja ウリチ語 ja オルチャ語 ko 울치어 pl język ulczyjski pt Língua ulch ru ульчский язык th ภาษาอุลช์ tr ulc uk ульцька мова
🔖 Identifiers · 15
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
3009
Ethnologue.com language code
ulc
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/0bq6pw
GOST 7.75–97 code
уль 725
Glottolog code
ulch1241
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4698736
IETF language tag
ulc
ISO 639-3 code
ulc
Linguasphere code
44-CAA-eea
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007553619005171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
548869
Show all 15 identifiers +3
Topic's main category
Category:Ulch language
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ID
506
WALS lect code
ulc

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🔗 Connections
Indigenous to 4
Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Ulch people, Ulchsky District
← Language used 4
Russia, Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Ulch people
Instance of 2
language, modern language
Country 1
Russia
Linguistic typology 1
agglutinative language
Topic's main category 1
Category:Ulch language
Writing system 1
Cyrillic script
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Ulch lemmas
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Ulch language
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Summary

Ulch is a language[1].

Related Entities

Russia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . 2010 Russian census. gks.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . 2002 Russian census. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Indigenous to → Ulch people, Amur Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai +1
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+154'}, {'amount': '+732'}
    Topic's main category → Category:Ulch language
    Ethnologue language status → 8a Moribund
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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