The Udihe Language (also known as Udege , Udekhe or Udeghe ) is the language spoken by Udiges , inhabitants of the regions of krais of Khabarovsk and the coast in Russia . It is one of the Tungus languages .
Vocabulary
Udihe contains a large number of root words very similar to those of the Nanai language , which replaced the older Udihe vocabulary:
- [banixe] (thanks), from Nanai [banixa], instead of Udege [usasa]
- [dœlbo](work), from Nanai [dœbo] , instead of Udege [etete]
- [daŋsa](book), from Nanai [daŋsa] , which in turn was imported from Mandarin檔 子 ( Pinyin : dāngzi ), which means “file”.
In general, there is a great degree of mutual assimilation of the two languages in the Bikin region . Udihe, moreover, exercised a philosophical influence on the Nanai dialect of Bikin, including monotonguization of diphthongs, denazalization of nasal vowels , elimination of the reduction of final vowels, epenthesis avoiding words ending in consonant, and elimination of intervocalic [w]. [ 1 ]
Spelling
The alphabet used between 1931 and 1937 was:
| A a | Ā ā | B в | Є є | D d | Ӡ ӡ | And is | And is |
| Æ æ | F f | G g | H h | I i | Ī ī | J j | K k |
| L l | M m | N n | Ņ ņ | Ŋ ŋ | O o | Ō ō | Ө ө |
| P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | Ū ū | W w | X x |
| Y y | Z z | ‘ |
Phonology
Vowels
| Previous | Central | Later | ||
| Closed | i iː | y yː | u uː | |
| Medial | ø ːː | ə əː | o oː | |
| Open | æ æː | a aː | ||
Consonants [ edit | edit source code ]
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
| Plosiva | voiceless | P | t | k | ||
| Fortis | B | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | x | ||||
| Africada | Tenuis | have | ||||
| Fortis | d͡z ~ z | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Net | l | |||||
| Approx. | w | j | ||||
/ z / is a / d͡z / allophone. [ 2 ]