Oroch language

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Oroch
Орочи кэсэни
Native to	Russia
Region	Russian Far East
Ethnicity	527 Orochs (2021 census)[1]
Extinct	2008[2] 119 (2021 census)[3]
Language family	Tungusic Northern Udegheic Oroch
Dialects	Koppi Oroch Xadi Tumnin
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	oac
Glottolog	oroc1248
ELP	Oroch
Oroch
Oroch is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The Oroch language is a nearly^{[citation needed]} extinct language spoken by the Oroch people in Siberia. It is a member of the southern group of the Tungusic languages and is closely related to the Nanai language and Udege language. It was spoken in the Khabarovsk Krai (Komsomolsky, Sovetskaya Gavan, and Ulchsky districts). The language is split into three dialects: Tumninsky, Khadinsky, and Hungarisky. At the beginning of the 21st century, a written form of the language was created. The Russian government and the scientific field disagree on whether the language is living or extinct.^[2][4] The last active speaker died in 2008, but there are pasive speakers who speak Oroch to varying degrees.^[5]

Oroch belongs to the northern subgroup of the Tungusic languages, alongside Udege, its closest relative, and the Ewenic languages.

It is believed that the Oroch language is the closest to Nanai, because a significant group of Nanai (Evenki) origin (Samagirs) joined the Orochs. Until the beginning of the 20th century, some researchers combined the Orochi with the Udege, considering them as close dialects. In the 1930s it was believed that the Udege language could be considered as a single standard language for both ethnic groups.