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:

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.

[edit] References

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