Kili (Kilen, Kirin, Kila), known as ''Hezhe'' or more specifically ''Qileen'' () in Chinese and also as the Kur-Urmi dialect of
Nanai, is a
Tungusic language
The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu-Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples. Many Tungusic languages are endangered. There are approximately 75,000 native speakers of the doz ...
of Russia and China. Nanai is a Southern Tungusic language, and Kili has traditionally been considered one of the diverse dialects of Nanai, but it "likely belongs to the northern group".
[Alexander Vovin, "Tungusic Languages", in the ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'', 2006]
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