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Nanai people
нанай, нани, хэдзэни | |
|---|---|
 Nanai children. Girls are in traditional costume "pokto". | |
| Total population | |
| c. 18,000 (est.) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Russia, China | |
 Russia
| 11,623[1] |
 China (Heilongjiang) | 5,354[2] |
| Languages | |
| Nanai, Russian (in Russia), Mandarin Chinese (in China) | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Shamanism Minority: .svg){kind=small} Tibetan Buddhism  Russian Orthodoxy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Evenks, Oroqen, Manchus, Udege, other Tungusic peoples | |
The Nanai people (Russian: нанайцы, romanized: nanaitsy) are a Tungusic people of East Asia who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang (Sunggari) and Wusuli River (Ussuri)[3] on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Wild Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria, which is now the region of Outer Manchuria in Russia's Far Eastern Federal District.
The Nanai language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic family. According to the 2010 census there were 12,003 Nanai in Russia.
- ^ "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China [1] (2010)
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 213.
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