The Even language (also known as Lamut, Ewen, Eben, Orich, Ilqan; Russian: Эве́нский язы́к, earlier also Ламутский язы́к) is a Tungusic language spoken by the Evens in Siberia. It is widely scattered over the entire Sea of Okhotsk Arctic coast. It is an endangered language, having 7,168 speakers (Russian census, 2002). Dialects are Arman, Indigirka, Kamchatka, Kolyma-Omolon, Okhotsk, Ola, Tompon, Upper Kolyma, Sakkyryr, Lamunkhin. [2]
Language contact
In some remote Arctic villages, such as Russkoye Ustye, whose population descended from Russian-Even intermarriage, the language spoken into the 20th century was a dialect of Russian with a strong Even influence.[3]
Orthography
| А а |
Ӑ ӑ |
Б б |
В в |
Г г |
Д д |
Е е |
Ё ё |
Ж ж |
| З з |
И и |
Й й |
К к |
Л л |
М м |
Н н |
Ӈ ӈ |
| О о |
Ө ө |
Ӫ ӫ |
Ӧ ӧ |
П п |
Р р |
С с |
Т т |
У у |
| Ф ф |
Х х |
Ц ц |
Ч ч |
Ш ш |
Щ щ |
Ъ ъ |
Ы ы |
| Ь ь |
Э э |
Ю ю |
Я я |
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References
- ^ Gordon, 2005 (Altaic)
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Russian dialects in East Siberia and Kamchatka. Reviews such publications as: A. Krasovitsky and Ch. Sappok. "The Isolated Russian Dialectal System in Contact with Tungus Languages in Siberia and Far East"; A.Krasovitsky. "Prosody of Statements in the Speech of Old Settlers in the Polar Region".
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