Negidal language

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Negidal
Неғида хэсэнин
Native to	Russia
Region	Russian Far East
Ethnicity	510 Negidals (2010 census)[1]
Native speakers	29 (2020 census)[2] 6 (2017)[3]
Language family	Tungusic Northern Ewenic Evenki group Negidal
Dialects	Upper Lower
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	neg
Glottolog	negi1245
ELP	Negidal
Negidal is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Negidal (also spelled Neghidal) is a language of the Tungusic family spoken in the Russian Far East, mostly in Khabarovsk Krai, along the lower reaches of the Amur River.^[1] Negidal belongs to the Northern branch of Tungusic, together with Evenki and Even. It is particularly close to Evenki, to the extent that it is occasionally referred to as a dialect of Evenki.^[4]