Alchuka (;

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ...

: ''Alcuka'', ''Alcuha''), also Alchuka Manchu () and the Alchuka dialect of Manchu () 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 near

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, northeastern China. A detailed overview of Alchuka can be found in Hölzl (2020).

Name

Alchuka is the historical name of a town, now called

Acheng District Acheng District (Manchu Language: Alcuka Hoton) is one of nine districts of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, covering part of the southeastern suburbs. The district was approved to est ...

Classification

Alchuka belongs to the Jurchenic subgroup of Tungusic. Other Jurchenic languages include Written

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, and Chinese Kyakala.

Documentation

Alchuka has been documented in the 1980s by Mu Yejun (穆晔骏), in Mu (1981: 72; 1985; 1986a; 1986b; 1987; 1988). At the time, only very few elderly speakers were left. Alchuka has also been discussed in Ikegami (1994, 1999: 321–343) and Hölzl (2017,Hölzl, Andreas. 2017. New evidence on Para-Mongolic numerals. ''Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne'' 96. 21–37. 2020).

References

{{Tungusic languages Agglutinative languages Tungusic languages Extinct languages of Asia Languages of Heilongjiang