Taz people explained

The Taz (;) are a Tungusic and Sinitic people who primarily live in Russia. They formed in the 1890s, from intermarriages between Udege, Nanai and Han Chinese. The Taz speak Russian and Northeast Mandarin, with loanwords from Udege and Nanai.

According to the Russian Census of 2002, the total Taz population numbered 276. Among these:

• 276 spoke Russian^[1]
• 131 were males (53 urban, 78 rural) and 145 females (57 urban, 88 rural)^[2]
• 110 were urban (53 males, 57 females) and 166 rural (78 males, 88 females)

In Bashkortostan, four people identified themselves as Taz.^[3]

In Khabarovsk Krai, three people identified themselves as Taz – one male and two females, all of them living in urban areas.^[4]

In the 2010 Russian census the number of Taz in Russia dropped to 274.

The Taz dialect is Northeastern Mandarin, with minor influence from local Tungusic languages such as Nanai and Udege.In the 1880s (?), there were a thousand speakers,^[1] but today the overwhelming majority of fluent speakers are elderly and Russian is the primary language of the Taz people.^[5]

Further reading

• Web site: Podmaskin . Vladimir Viktorovich [Подмаскин Владимир Викторович] . 2017 . Narodnyye znaniya tazov Primor'ya (XIX–XX vv.) . ru:Народные знания тазов Приморья (XIX-XX вв.) . Traditional knowledge of the Taz people (19th–20th centuries) . 2020-04-04 . cyberleninka.ru . ru.

Notes and References

1. http://google.com/search?q=cache:F22ZKuLijFEJ:lingsib.unesco.ru/ru/languages/statistics_ru.xls+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B+%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%8D&hl=el&gl=gr&ct=clnk&cd=10
2. Web site: ru:Национальный состав населения . http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_01.xls . https://web.archive.org/web/20060331190459/http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/TOM_04_01.xls . 2006-03-31 . Table . XLS . perepis2002.ru.
3. Web site: ru:Краткие итоги всероссийской переписи населения 2002 года статистический бюллетень часть ii . http://www.bashstat.ru/Docs/Itogi/bull02.shtm . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050816144939/http://www.bashstat.ru/Docs/itogi/bull02.shtm . August 16, 2005 . December 21, 2006 . bashstat.ru . ru.
4. Web site: Untitled . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070626143924/http://www.khabstat.ru/peripis2002/index.php?page=11 . June 26, 2007 . khabstat.ru . ru.
5. Web site: Shilonosova . Alena [Алёна Шилоносова] . 11 October 2018 . ru:«Я понимаю, а сказать не могу»: Забытый язык народа тазов . https://zapovednik.space/material/ja-ponimaju-a-skazat-ne-mogu . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20191102082814/https://zapovednik.space/material/ja-ponimaju-a-skazat-ne-mogu . 2019-11-02 . 2018-10-12 . Медиапроект «Заповедник» . ru.