Did you know Khamnigan Ewenki is threatened?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Khamnigan Evenki, Khamnigan Tungus, Horse Tungus, Tungus Evenki, 通古斯鄂溫克
CLASSIFICATION		Tungusic, Northern Tungusic
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		two different dialectal forms
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Khamnigan in the technical sense refers to the Khamnigan ethnic group, and their common community language was Khamnigan Mongol. However, historically a considerable part of the Khamnigan also have spoken dialects of Ewenki, a Tungusic language. (Juha Janhunen, p.c.)

DOMAINS OF USE

TRANSMISSION

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The above estimation is for the Manchurian group of speakers before the mid 1990s; "POSSIBLY EXTINCT in Mongolia and Siberia"

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"with a strong interference of Khamnigan Mongol at all levels of linguistic structure"

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "three main groups of speakers identifiable by regional adherence as the Siberian (Russian), Manchurian (Chinese), and Mongolian Khamnigan"

Ethnic population
3,000-4,000
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The Khamnigan ethnic group arrived in China and Mongolia as emigrants after the Russian revolution of 1917.

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No one has studied the situation recently.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Khamnigan Mongol used to be the community language.

Khamnigan Ewenki

					2000	Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia										UNESCO				http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html			~1,600			~1,000	1993	1000-9999						Khamnigan Mongol is the community language.				"with a strong interference of Khamnigan Mongol at all levels of linguistic structure"		no monolingual	Threatened (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11		The above estimation is for the Manchurian group of speakers before the mid 1990s; "POSSIBLY EXTINCT in Mongolia and Siberia"	14			"three main groups of speakers identifiable by regional adherence as the Siberian (Russian), Manchurian (Chinese), and Mongolian Khamnigan"	Russia; China; Mongolia	the Onon-Argun region of Transbaikalia
		March			2015	Personal Communication on Khamnigan															Juha Janhunen	Juha Janhunen. 2015. Personal Communication on Khamnigan.			3,000-4,000						The Khamnigan ethnic group arrived in China and Mongolia as emigrants after the Russian revolution of 1917.					Khamnigan Mongol				Khamnigan Mongol used to be the community language.						No one has studied the situation recently.					Mongolia; China; Russia		49.296, 119.797