The Taz primarily live in Russia

Russia

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. They formed in 1880s, from intermarriages between Udege

Udege

Udege are a people who live in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions in Russia. They live along the tributaries of the Ussuri, Amur, Kungari and Anyuy Rivers. The Udege speak the Udege language, which belongs to the Tungusic language family...

, Nanai and Chinese

Han Chinese

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. The Taz speak Russian and the Taz language (a Chinese

Chinese language

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 dialect with some words from Udege

Udege language

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 and Nanai

Nanai language

The Nanai language is spoken by the Nanai people in Siberia, and to a much smaller extent in China's Heilongjiang province, where it is known as Hezhe...

). In 1880s were around 1,050 Taz speakers, but nowadays only elders speak the language http://google.com/search?q=cache:F22ZKuLijFEJ:lingsib.unesco.ru/ru/languages/statistics_ru.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=10.

According to the Russian Census of 2002 the total Taz population numbered 276, of them:

- 276 spoke Russian http://google.com/search?q=cache:F22ZKuLijFEJ:lingsib.unesco.ru/ru/languages/statistics_ru.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=10;

- 131 were males (53 urban, 78 rural) and 145 females (57 urban, 88 rural) http://google.com/search?q=cache:shCkWxzHXMkJ:www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_01.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=3;

- 110 were urban (53 males, 57 females) and 166 rural (78 males, 88 females) http://google.com/search?q=cache:shCkWxzHXMkJ:www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_01.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=3.

In the Republic of Bashkortostan, four people identified themselves as Taz http://www.bashstat.ru/Docs/Itogi/bull02.shtm.

In Khabarovsk Krai

Khabarovsk Krai

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, three people identified themselves as Taz - one male and two females, all of them living in urban areas http://www.khabstat.ru/peripis2002/index.php?page=11.