Race To Save Manchurian Language

Language experts in China have sent a specialist team to the Manchu region, as the are so concerned that the dialect is dying out. They have headed to Sanjiazi, a small village the Heilongjiang Province, which has some of the last Manchu-speaking people in China. Today, Sanjiazi is seen as a ‘living fossil’ for the study of the Manchu language.

Manchu is of great significance to China's culture and history, as it was the official language of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In the last days of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu was no longer the official language and the teaching of Manchu was finally abolished after the 1911 Revolution, which brought an end to the Qing Dynasty.

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