{"id":67165,"date":"2024-12-02T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67165"},"modified":"2024-12-03T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:02:36","slug":"manchu-is-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67165","title":{"rendered":"Manchu is not dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen for yourself:<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Manchu language, casually spoken | Shihuan, Ronglu, and Shiyu speaking Manchu | Wikitongues\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Gc--eO0ok8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>Posted by Wikitongues, who also provided this explanation:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Manchu is a Tungusic language from Manchuria in Northeast China. Spoken in the Qing Dynasty, it is critically endangered, and its linguistic traditions continue with the Sibe people in the Northwest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">More from Wikipedia: \"Manchu (Manchu:\u182e\u1820\u1828\u1835\u1860 \u1864\u1873\u1830\u1860\u1828, manju gisun) is a critically endangered East Asian Tungusic language native to the historical region of Manchuria in Northeast China. As the traditional native language of the Manchus, it was one of the official languages of the Qing dynasty (1636\u20131912) of China, although today the vast majority of Manchus now speak only Mandarin Chinese. The Xibe (or Sibe) are often considered to be the modern custodians of the written Manchu language. The Xibe live in Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County near the Ili valley in Xinjiang, having been moved there by the Qianlong Emperor in 1764. Modern written Xibe is very close to Manchu, although there are slight differences in the writing system which reflect distinctive Xibe pronunciation. More significant differences exist in morphological and syntactic structure of the spoken Xibe language.\" Ronglu and Shiyu (at the center and left) are both Sibe and from Qapqal. Shihuan (at the right) is Manchu and lives in a village near the Heilong (\u201cBlack Dragon\u201d) River, referred to in Manchu as Sahaliyan Ula.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>The Manchu Qing dynasty ruled over the whole of China from 1644 to 1912, a total of 268 years, making it one of the longest dynasties in East Asian history.\u00a0 Two of its emperors ruled for roughly 60 years each.\u00a0 It expanded Chinese territory to its greatest extent (in 1790, it was the fourth-largest empire in world history), matched only by the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) which preceded it, separated by the ethnic Han Ming dynasty (1368-1644), which was three times smaller and three times less populous than the Manchu Qing.\u00a0 And yet, in 1912, the Manchu empire collapsed colossally, taking its language with it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Sibe and the revival of Manchu\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=52259\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sibe and the revival of Manchu<\/a>\" (10\/4\/21)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/12\/world\/asia\/china-xinjiang-manchu-xibe-language.html\">Manchu, Former Empire\u2019s Language, Hangs On at China\u2019s Edge<\/a>\" (1\/11\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Sibe: a living Manchu\r\n          language\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=34726\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sibe: a living Manchu language<\/a>\" (9\/30\/17)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Ornamental Manchu: the\r\n          lengths to which a forger will go\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=50860\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ornamental Manchu: the lengths to which a forger will go<\/a>\" (4\/24\/21)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to A confusion of\r\n          languages and names\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=26693\" rel=\"bookmark\">A confusion of languages and names<\/a>\" (7\/8\/16)<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to A rebirth for Manchu?\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=23524\" rel=\"bookmark\">A rebirth for Manchu?<\/a>\" (1\/16\/16)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>[Thanks to Jichang Lulu]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen for yourself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,16,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-ethnicity","category-language-and-politics","category-language-extinction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67187,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165\/revisions\/67187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}