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

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.

Documentation

Chinese Kyakala has been documented in Mu & Ma (1983); Mu’ercha & Mu’ercha (1983); Mu’ercha & Meng (1986); and Mu (1987).

More recent discussions of Chinese Kyakala include Gu (2018); Hölzl (2018); and Hölzl & Hölzl (2019).

References

1. Hölzl, Andreas; Payne, Thomas E. (2022). Tungusic languages: past and present. Berlin: Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-395-9. OCLC 1356978751.
2. Mu, Yejun 穆晔骏 & Wenye Ma 马文业. 1983. Qiakalaren minsu 恰喀拉人民俗. Heilongjiang minjian wenxue 黑龙江民间文学8. 191–209.
3. Mu’ercha, Anbulonga 穆尔察安布隆阿 & Yiling’a Mu’ercha 穆尔察依凌阿. 1983. Qiantan “qiakala hejinge” 浅谈《恰喀拉合卺歌》. Heilongjiang minjian wenxue 黑龙江民间文学9. 145–153.
4. Mu’ercha, Yejun 穆尔察晔骏 & Huiying Meng 孟慧英. 1986. Qiakalaren de gushi 恰喀拉人的故事. Heilongjiang minjian wenxue 黑龙江民间文学 19. 1–103.
5. Mu, Yejun 穆晔骏. 1987. Balayu 巴拉语. Manyu yanjiu 满语研究 1987(2). 2–31, 128.
6. Gu, Changchun 谷长春(ed.). 2018. Qiakala ren de gushi, xiao mo’ergen yiwen 恰喀拉人的故事，小莫尔根轶闻. Jilin: Jilin renmin chubanshe.
7. Hölzl, Andreas. 2018. Udi, Udihe, and the language(s) of the Kyakala. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15. 111–146.
8. Hölzl, Andreas & Yadi Hölzl. 2019. A wedding ceremony of the Kyakala in China: Language and ritual. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 16. 87–144.

• Agglutinative languages
• Tungusic languages
• Extinct languages of Asia
• Languages of China