Chinese Kyakala language

Not to be confused with Russian Kyakala language, a dialect group of Udege.

Chinese Kyakala (Chinese: 恰喀拉; pinyin: Qiàkālā) is an extinct Tungusic language that was spoken in northeastern China.

Chinese Kyakala
Region	Northeastern China
Ethnicity	Kyakala
Extinct	1980s
Language family	Tungusic Southern Jurchenic Chinese Kyakala
Writing system	None
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)

It is not to be confused with Russian Kyakala or Kekar, a southern Udeghe language or dialect cluster that was spoken in Far East Russia. In contrast, Chinese Kyakala belongs in the Jurchenic subgroup.^[1]

Documentation

Chinese Kyakala has been documented in Mu & Ma (1983);^[2] Mu’ercha & Mu’ercha (1983);^[3] Mu’ercha & Meng (1986);^[4] and Mu (1987).^[5]

More recent discussions of Chinese Kyakala include Gu (2018);^[6] Hölzl (2018);^[7] and Hölzl & Hölzl (2019).^[8]