Even language

Even
эвэды торэн (eved'i toren)
Native to	Russia
Region	Russian Far East
Ethnicity	21,800 Evens (2010 census)[1]
Native speakers	5,700 (2010 census)[1]
Language family	Tungusic Northern Even
Language codes
ISO 639-3	eve
Glottolog	even1260[2]

The Even language /eɪˈvɛn/, also known as Lamut, Ewen, Eben, Orich, Ilqan (Russian: Эве́нский язы́к, earlier also Ламутский язы́к), 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. Even is an endangered language, with only some 5,700 speakers (Russian census, 2010). Dialects are Arman, Indigirka, Kamchatka, Kolyma-Omolon, Okhotsk, Ola, Tompon, Upper Kolyma, Sakkyryr, Lamunkhin.^[3]

Language contact

In some remote Arctic villages, such as Russkoye Ustye, whose population descended from Russian-Even intermarriage, the language spoken into the 20th century was a dialect of Russian with a strong Even influence.^[4]

Orthography

Cyrillic

А а	Ӑ ӑ	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё
Ж ж	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м	Н н
Ӈ ӈ	О о	Ө ө	Ӫ ӫ	Ӧ ӧ	П п	Р р	С с
Т т	У у	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ
Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

Latin

A a	A‘ a‘	Aw aw	B b	Ch ch	D d	E e	F f
G g	G‘ g‘	H h	I ı	İ i	J j	K k	L l
M m	N n	N‘ n‘	O o	O‘ o‘	P p	Q q	R r
S s	Sh sh	T t	U u	U‘ u‘	V v	W w	X x
Y y	Z z	’

References

1. Even at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Even". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
4. Russian dialects in East Siberia and Kamchatka. Reviews such publications as: A. Krasovitsky and Ch. Sappok. "The Isolated Russian Dialectal System in Contact with Tungus Languages in Siberia and Far East"; A.Krasovitsky. "Prosody of Statements in the Speech of Old Settlers in the Polar Region".

External links

• Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Even Language
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Even language
• Vergleich der Reziproken des Ewenischen mit verwandten Sprachen