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eveEven  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Even language (also known as Lamut, Ewen, Eben, Orich, Ilqan; , earlier also ) is a Tungusic language spoken by the Evens in Siberia. It is spoken by widely scattered communities of reindeer herders from Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the River Lena in the west, and from the Arctic coast in the north to the River Aldan in the south. It is an endangered language, with only some 7,000 speakers (Russian census, 2002). Dialects are Arman, Indigirka, Kamchatka, Kolyma-Omolon, Okhotsk, Ola, Tompon, Upper Kolyma, Sakkyryr, Lamunkhin.

Entry terms

  • Even language

ISO 639-3 code

  • eve

Notation

  • eve

In other languages

  • Évène

    French

  • Ewenische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua evena

    Italian

  • Língua even

    Portuguese

  • Idioma even

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/eve

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