Southwestern Tungusic languages
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The Southwestern Tungusic languages, also called the Jurchen-Manchu group, are one of two branches within the Southern Tungusic languages
. It consists of Manchu
, Xibe
, and the extinct Jurchen
.
Southern Tungusic languages
The Southern Tungusic languages belong to the Tungusic family and are spoken in the extreme southeast of Russia and northeastern China.- References :*...
. It consists of Manchu
Manchu language
Manchu is a Tungusic endangered language spoken in Northeast China; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 70 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus...
, Xibe
Xibe language
The Xibe language is the most widely spoken of the Tungusic languages spoken by members of the Xibe ethnic group in Xinjiang, in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.-Phonology:...
, and the extinct Jurchen
Jurchen language
Jurchen language is an extinct language. It was spoken by Jurchen people of eastern Manchuria, the creators of the Jin Empire in the northeastern China of the 12th–13th centuries. It is classified as a Southwestern Tungusic language.-Writing:...
.