Evenki
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Also Known As:
Solon, Ewenki, эвенкский язык, эвэды̄ турэ̄н, Owenke, Suolun, Tungus, Chapogir, Avanki, Avankil, ewen-ki, Sprache der Hiesigen, Manegir, Ewenkische, Northwestern, Siberian Ewenki, 鄂溫克語, 埃文基語, 陳巴爾虎莫日格勒河方言, 雅庫特鄂溫克語, тунгусский язык, Ewenke
Dialects & Varieties
  • Aoluguya
  • Huihe
  • Chenba'erhu
  • Haila'er
  • Morigele
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Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia

Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html

Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
About Vitality Level
~10,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends

Speaker Number Trend 4

Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.

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Transmission

Transmission 2

Most adults in the community are speakers, but children generally are not.

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Speakers
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~30,000
Year information was gathered
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Location and Context
Countries
Siberia
Location Description

The widest-spread language of Siberia, spoken by a population sparsely covering the whole taiga zone from the Yenisei in the west to the lower Amur and Sakhalin in the east, and from Taimyr and the lower Lena in the north to Baikal and the upper Amur in the south; a small group of speakers, known as the Manchurian Reindeer Tungus (often erroneously called "Yakut"), live on the Chinese side of the upper Amur.

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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
almost all
Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
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Comments on writing systems:
The language has a written norm used for elementary-school textbooks and occasional other publications.

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