Southern Tungusic languages

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Southern Tungusic
Geographic
distribution:
Russia, People's Republic of China
Genetic
classification
:
Altaic[1] (controversial)
 Tungusic
  Southern Tungusic
Subdivisions:
Southeast Tungusic group
Southwest Tungusic group


The Southern Tungusic languages belong to the Tungusic family and are spoken in the extreme southeast of Russia (Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, and Sakhalin Oblast) and northeastern China.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Gordon, 2005 (Altaic)
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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