Ewenish language
| Ewenisch | ||
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Spoken in |
 Russia
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| speaker | under 7,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
tut (other Altaic languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
eve |
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The Ewenian language (also “Lamutian language”) belongs to the Manchu-Tungusic languages .
history
The easternmost dialects of Evenk are said to have separated from the westernmost dialects of Evenk around 500 AD, with which Evenk is counted together with Negid to the northern branch of the Manchu-Tungus languages. Some dialects of the two languages in Yakutia have maintained close linguistic contact and have strong grammatical and lexical overlaps.
The great differences between the eastern dialects in Kamchatka , Chukotka , Magadan and Khabarovsk and the western dialects in Yakutia made it difficult to find a common written language. From 1932 a written language based on the Ola dialect was created based on the Cyrillic alphabet , but from the 1960s onwards, writing systems based on their own dialects were created in Yakutia and Kamchatka.
Todays situation
The language is seriously endangered . The majority of the Evens no longer speak Evens, but rather Russian and / or Yakut . In 1979 there were about 7,000 speakers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . (English). Retrieved February 2, 2013.