Oroch
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Orochs or Orochons (self designation: Nani) are a small people of Russia that speak the Oroch (Orochon) dialect of the Southern group of Tungusic languages. According to the 2002 census, there were 686 Orochs in Russia.
Orochs traditionally settled in the southern part of the Khabarovsk Krai, Russia and on the Amur and Kopp rivers. In the 19th century, some of them migrated to Sakhalin. In the early 1930s, the Orochi National District was created, but it was cancelled shortly thereafter "due to lack of native population".
Because the people never had a written language, they were educated in the Russian language. Their language, Oroch, is on the verge of dying out. They follow Shamanism, Russian Orthodox Christianity, and Buddhism.
