Manchu
Tungusic language originating from Northeast China
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Summary
Manchu is a natural language[1]. Manchu ranks in the top 9% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,240 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: People's Republic of China[3], Russia[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Jurchenic[6]
- Writing system: Manchu alphabet[7], Mongolian[8]
- Commons category: Manchu language[9]
- Wikimedia language code: mnc[10]
- Topic's main category: Category:Manchu language[11]
- Described at URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/world/asia/china-xinjiang-manchu-xibe-language.html[12], http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160112/c12manchu/[13]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 20[14]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17]
- Native label: ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ[18]
- UNESCO language status: 5 critically endangered[19]
- Indigenous to: Manchuria[20], Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County[21], Beijing[22], Hebei[23], Heilongjiang[24], Jilin[25], Liaoning[26]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MNC[27]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q22828758[28]
- Has grammatical case: identical case[29], revertive case[30], orientative case[31], initiative case[32]
- Ethnologue language status: 8b Nearly Extinct[33]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[34], agglutinative language[35]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Manchu-language films[36]
- Wikimedia Incubator URL: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mnc[37]
Why It Matters
Manchu has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] Manchu is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]