Chinese Kyakala () is an extinct
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 ...
that was spoken in northeastern China.
It is not to be confused with ''
Russian Kyakala'' or ''Kekar'', a southern
Udeghe language or dialect cluster that was spoken in
Far East Russia
The Russian Far East ( rus, Дальний Восток России, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asia, Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Easte ...
. In contrast, Chinese Kyakala belongs in the
Jurchenic subgroup.
Documentation
Chinese Kyakala has been documented in Mu & Ma (1983); Mu’ercha & Mu’ercha (1983); Mu’ercha & Meng (1986); and Mu (1987).
More recent discussions of Chinese Kyakala include Gu (2018); Hölzl (2018); and Hölzl & Hölzl (2019).
[Hölzl, Andreas & Yadi Hölzl. 2019. A wedding ceremony of the Kyakala in China: Language and ritual. ''International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction'' 16. 87–144.]
References
{{Tungusic languages
Agglutinative languages
Tungusic languages
Extinct languages of Asia
Languages of China