Taz people
Тазы | |
---|---|
Total population | |
274 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Russia | 274[1] |
Languages | |
Russian, Mandarin Chinese (Taz dialect) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Udege, Han Chinese, Nanai |
The Taz (Russian: Та́зы, romanized: Tázy; Chinese:
According to the Russian Census of 2002, the total Taz population numbered 276.[2] Among these:
- 276 spoke Russian[3]
- 131 were males (53 urban, 78 rural) and 145 females (57 urban, 88 rural)[2]
- 110 were urban (53 males, 57 females) and 166 rural (78 males, 88 females)[2]
In Bashkortostan, four people identified themselves as Taz.[4]
In Khabarovsk Krai, three people identified themselves as Taz – one male and two females, all of them living in urban areas.[5]
In the 2010 Russian census the number of Taz in Russia dropped to 274.[1]
The Taz dialect is Northeastern Mandarin, with minor influence from local Tungusic languages such as Nanai and Udege. In the 1880s (?), there were a thousand speakers,[3] but today the overwhelming majority of fluent speakers are elderly and Russian is the primary language of the Taz people.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Национальный состав населения Российской федерации (Table). Archived from the original (XLS) on April 24, 2012 – via perepis-2010.ru.
- ^ a b c Национальный состав населения (Table). Archived from the original (XLS) on 2006-03-31 – via perepis2002.ru.
- ^ a b [1] [dead link]
- ^ Краткие итоги всероссийской переписи населения 2002 года статистический бюллетень часть ii. bashstat.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on August 16, 2005. Retrieved December 21, 2006.
- ^ "Untitled". khabstat.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on June 26, 2007.
- ^ Shilonosova, Alena [Алёна Шилоносова] (11 October 2018). «Я понимаю, а сказать не могу»: Забытый язык народа тазов. Медиапроект «Заповедник» (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
Further reading[edit]
- Podmaskin, Vladimir Viktorovich [Подмаскин Владимир Викторович] (2017). "Narodnyye znaniya tazov Primor'ya (XIX–XX vv.)" Народные знания тазов Приморья (XIX-XX вв. ) [Traditional knowledge of the Taz people (19th–20th centuries)] (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-04 – via cyberleninka.ru.