In Khabarovsk Krai, three people identified themselves as Taz – one male and two females, all of them living in urban areas.[5]
In the 2010 Russian census the number of Taz in Russia dropped to 274.[1]
The Taz dialect is Northeastern Mandarin, with minor influence from local Tungusic languages such as Nanai and Udege.
In the 1880s (?), there were a thousand speakers,[3] but today the overwhelming majority of fluent speakers are elderly and Russian is the primary language of the Taz people.[6]