"The Nanai people are a Tungusic people of East Asia and the Russian Far East, who have traditionally lived along Heilongjiang (Amur), Songhuajiang (Sunggari) and Wusuli ...
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River on the Middle Amur Basin. The ancestors of the Nanai were the Jurchens of northernmost Manchuria (Outer Manchuria).
The Nanai/Hezhe language belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic languages. According to the 2010 census there were 12,003 Nanai in Russia." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)