满族是中国五大少数民族之一。在清代近300年的统治时期,满语是统治集团的官方语言。但随着清王朝的消亡,满语的使用范围也在以惊人的速度缩小,以至濒临绝灭。时至今日,全国范围内精通满语语音、口语、方言并且能够传授的专家只剩一人,他就是北京市文史研究馆馆员、爱新觉罗氏嫡系后裔——爱新觉罗·瀛生。这位八旬老人近日接受访问时,对满语口语面临失传的现状忧心忡忡…… Manchu is one of the five minorities in China. During the nearly 300 years of reign of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu was the official language of the ruling clique. However, with the demise of the Qing dynasty, Manchu’s scope of use was also shrinking at an alarming rate, even to the point of extinction. Today, there is only one expert who can master Manchurian phonetics, spoken English and dialects and is able to teach them. He is a librarian of the Beijing Municipal Museum of History and Literature and a descendant of Aixinjueluo Roche - Aixinjueluo Yingsheng. When the 80-year-old man was interviewed recently, he was worried about the situation of Manchu spoken language being lost