Kili (Kilen, Kirin, Kila), known as ''Hezhe'' or more specifically ''Qile'en'' () in Chinese and also as the
Kur
The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian language, Sumerian as ''Kur'', ''Irkalla'', ''Kukku'', ''Arali'', or ''Kigal'', and in Akkadian language, Akkadian as ''Erá¹£etu''), was the lowermost part of the Ancient near eastern cosmol ...
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Urmi dialect of
Nanai, is a moribund
Tungusic language 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]
References
Further reading
* Zhang, P.
��派予 (2013). The Kilen language of Manchuria : grammar of a moribund Tungusic language. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4985881
External links
* ELAR archive o
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