subgroups having local cultural, traditional, and linguistic differences.

The Negidal language is considered an endangered language; a 2017 study failed to find any active speakers of the Lower dialect, with only a few elderly people actively speaking Upper Negidal in Vladimirovka.

Origin and history

Negidal people are considered to descend from Evenks that settled in the Amgun basin during the Iron Age. After

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