Endangered Languages Project - Even

Even

^{[aka Lamut, Orich, Ilqan]}

Classification: Tungusic

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Lamut, Orich, Ilqan, Ewen, Eben, lama-dī, Ewenische, Lamutische, Northeastern Tungus, Tungusisabatschi, Lamuti, эвенский язык, ламутский язык, эвэды торэн, eved'i toren
CLASSIFICATION		Tungusic, Northern Tungusic
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic script
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		eve
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Okhotsk Ola Tompon Kolyma-Omolon Upper Kolyma Indigirka Sakkyryr Kamchatka Arman Lamunkhin
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~7,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~17,000
CHILDREN
very few

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic script
More on Orthography: The language has limited written use with two orthographical standards (both in Cyrillic script, conforming to Yakut and Russian, respectively).

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: in northwestern Siberia, from the Lena to the Anadyr', with a small diaspora group in the Bystraya region of central Kamchatka

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,543
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
9,803
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
17,199

DATE OF INFO: 1989

SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Even is low-prestige compared to Russian
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,170
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
19,071

DATE OF INFO: 2002 (census)

PLACES: Russia;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,168
Native speakers worldwide

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67.6593,134.6594

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press