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Preferred term

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

In other languages

  • Eveneg

    Breton

  • Евенски език

    Bulgarian

  • Even

    Catalan

  • Eveens

    Dutch

  • Evena lingvo

    Esperanto

  • Finnish

  • Évène

    French

  • Ewenische Sprache

    German

  • Even nyelv

    Hungarian

  • Lingua evena

    Italian

  • Эвен кыв

    Komi

  • Evenų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Евенски јазик

    Macedonian

  • Bahasa Even

    Malay

  • Evensk

    Norwegian

  • Evensk

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • زبان اون

    Persian

  • Lenga even

    Piedmontese

  • Język eweński

    Polish

  • Língua even

    Portuguese

  • Эвенский язык

    Russian

  • Эбээн тыла

    Sakha

  • Evenčina

    Slovak

  • Idioma even

    Spanish

  • Евенська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

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

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