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  Evenki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Evenks inhabit a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south.
According to the administrative structure, the Evenks inhabit, amonst others, the Tyumen and Tomsk regions, the Krasnoyarsk district, the Irkutsk, Chita, and Amur regions, Buryatia and Yakutia, the Khabarovsk district and the Sakhalin region.
The Evenk language is the largest of the northern group of the Manchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includes the Even and Negidal languages.
encyclopedia.jigyasa.in /wikipedia/e/ev/evenki.html   (456 words)

  
 Evenks - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
According to the administrative structure, the Evenks inhabit, amonst others, the Tyumen and Tomsk regions, the Krasnoyarsk district (esp. Evenkia), the Irkutsk, Chita, and Amur regions, Buryatia and Yakutia, the Khabarovsk district and the Sakhalin region.
There are approximately 26,000 Evenks in China, of whom nearly 23,000 live in the Hulunbuir region in the north of the Inner Mongolia Province, near the city of Hailar.
A large Evenk community (the Solon, the Tungus, the Ainak, the Nakagyr and the Orochon) lives in the northeast of China, close to the borders with the former Soviet republics, while others inhabit areas of Inner Mongolia and Manchuria.
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 Evenk language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Evenk language (Evenki language) (SIL: EVN, ISO 639-2: tut) is the largest of the northern group of the Manchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includes the Even and Negidal languages.
It is spoken by Evenks in Russia, Mongolia and China.
The Evenk language varies considerably and is divided into three large dialect groups: the northern, the southern and the eastern dialect.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evenki_language   (148 words)

  
 Evenks - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Evenks inhabit a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Oceanin the north, to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south.
The Evenk language is the largest of the northern group of theManchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includesthe Even and Negidal languages.
A large Evenk community(the Solon, the Tungus, the Ainak, the Nakagyr and the Orochon) lives in the northeast of China, close to the borders with the former Soviet republics, while others inhabit areas of Inner Mongolia and Manchuria.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Evenks   (393 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The native language was spoken fluently by 45.1 %.
The peaceful life of the Evenk in the Irkutsk and Chita regions and in the Khabarovsk district was disturbed by the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway.
The Evenks chose 47 representatives to participate in the Congress of Northern Ethnic Minorities that was held in Moscow on March 30--31, 1990 (the total number of the participants was 341).
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/evenks.shtml   (2223 words)

  
 Evenk language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Evenk language (Evenki language) (SIL :EVN, ISO 639-2 : tut) is the largest of the northern group of the Manchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includes the Evenand Negidal languages.
In certainareas the influences of the Yakut and the Buryat languages are strong.
The Evenk language varies considerably and is divided into three large dialectgroups: the northern, the southern and the eastern dialect.
www.therfcc.org /evenk-language-141099.html   (135 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Evenk language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China.
The Yakut language, or Sakha, is a Turkic language with around 363,000 speakers that is spoken in the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation.
A written language is a language that uses a writing system to convey meaning, or more generally the written form of any language that has such written components.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Evenk-language   (392 words)

  
 The Evenk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Evenk were formed through a mixture of the local population of Eastern Siberia with the Tungus tribes which came from the Cis-Baikal and the Trans-Baikal region.
The Census recorded 64500 Evenk, but the Tungus as the native language was declared by 34471 people, the rest (31.8%) said that their native language was Russian, Buryat and other languages.
Evenk storehouse in the exposition of the Taltsy Museum (Irkutsk Region)
www.raipon.org /Web_Database/evenk.html   (2010 words)

  
 Tungusic languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is an Agglutinative language that demonstrates limited vowel harmony, and it has been demonstrated that it is derived in the main from the Jurchen language though there are many loan words from Mongolian and Chinese.
Manchu began as the primary language of the Qing dynasty Imperial court, but by the 19th century even the imperial court had lost fluency in the language.
In fact, the modern custodians of the language are actually the Sibe who live near the Ili River valley in Xinjiang and were moved there by Qianlong Emperor of China in 1764.
read-and-go.hopto.org /Tungusic-languages   (480 words)

  
 Evenks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, their autonomous national territory is confined solely to the Krasnoyarsk district, where 4,632 of the 35,527 Evenks live (according to 2002 census).
Anthropologically the Evenk belong to the Baikal or of the Mongolian type, originating from the ancient Paleo-Siberian people of the Yenisei River up to the Okhotsk Sea.
There are approximately 26,000 Evenks in China (the Solon, the Tungus, the, the and the Orochon), of whom nearly 23,000 live in the Hulunbuir region in the north of the Inner Mongolia Province, near the city of Hailar.
www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Evenks   (521 words)

  
 Hunters: The people of Siberia
The KHANTS (Ostyaks, Ob Ostyaks) are comprised of 23,000 people who speak the Khant language of the Finno-Ugrian group of the Uralic language family and live in the regions of the Ob and Irtysh Rivers and their tributaries, within the range of the Khants-Mansi and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Districts.
The CHUKCHIS (Luoravetlan) consist of 15,000 people who speak the Chukchi language of the Chukchi-Kamchatka (Paleoasiatic) language family and live in northeastern Russia, within the boundaries of the Chukchi Autonomous District of the Magadan region, north of the Koryak Autonomous District of the Nizhnekolymskii (lower Kolyma) region of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
They speak the Yakutian language of the Turkic group of the Altaic language family and live mostly in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), with lesser numbers residing in the Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk regions, the Evenk Autonomous District, and the former Soviet Republics.
www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/changing/journey/hunters-people.html   (759 words)

  
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The biggest cause of decline of the Evenk language and the biggest threat to its survival in Russia is the fact that the Evenk are spread throughout huge territory of the Russian Federation and the rapid loss of the traditional way of life.
Almost every Evenk feels that there must be classes in Evenk language to revive the language and the culture in Evenk communities.
The spirit of rediscovering the Evenk self-identity is prevailing in the school.
www.indigenous.ru /english/bulletin/e_22.htm   (2657 words)

  
 Evenks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some groups call themselves orochen, 'an inhabitant of the River Oro' orochon, 'a rearer of reindeer', ile, 'a human being', etc. At one time or another tribal designations and place-names have also been used as self-designations, for instance, manjagir, birachen, solon etc. Several of these have even been taken for separate ethnic entities.
There are approximately 26,000 Evenks in China (the Solon, the Tungus, the Ainak, the Nakagyr and the Orochon), of whom nearly 23,000 live in the Hulunbuir region in the north of the Inner Mongolia Province, near the city of Hailar.
Along with their Even cousins and a few other tribes in Siberia, they are some of the only Asiatic peoples who nominally practice Orthodox Christianity, which they had voluntarily (as opposed to being coerced to do so) adopted during contacts from Russian expansion into Siberia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evenks   (494 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Shaman
The role of the shaman is to communicate with entities on the "spiritual plane", and to secure their aid to provide for the needs of their communities.
Specifically, shaman (saman) is a term in Evenk, Manchu and other Manchu-Tungus languages, though the phenomenon of shamanism is widespread and cross-cultural.
Fairy tales and even the language of everyday life include frequent references to knowledge obtained because "a little bird told me," which is a remnant of the idea that shamans can communicate directly with animals.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Shaman   (966 words)

  
 NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies
The Evenks are one of the most widely scattered nationalities of the Russian Federation, spread out over a territory reaching from the area of the Dolgans, Evens and Yakuts in the far north and all the way south to Lake Baykal and the Amur river.
Evenks had their first contacts with the Russians in the beginning of the 17th c., when Russian Cossacks built the Ket Fortress (1602), and began moving up the Yenisey river.
Evenk protests against the Russians were mostly passive, but between 1825 and 1841, there were several Evenk rebellions, all of which were ruthlessly crushed.
www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Evenk   (787 words)

  
 EZGeography - Mongolian alphabet
The Mongolian language historically has four writing systems that have been used over the centuries.
Two writing systems based on simplified Chinese ideograms and Sinogram-typed alphabetic block (see Hangul), respectively, were used to write the Mongolic language of Khitan, and also to write the Tungusic Jurchen language in their modified forms.
Besides the Mongolian language, the Evenk language is written in this script.
www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/Mongolian_alphabet   (435 words)

  
 All words on Tungusic languages
Some linguists constitute them to be part of the Altaic family of languages, together with the Turkic and Mongolian, but this theory is not universally agreed.
The Tungusic languages are divided into a northern and a southern group.
Manchu language of Manchuria, which is the only Tungusic language with a literary form since the 17th century and a written history.
www.allwords.org /tu/tungusic-languages.html   (341 words)

  
 Evenk language --  Encyclopædia Britannica
A literary form of the language, using the Latin alphabet, was created in the late 1920s, but that system was replaced by Cyrillic in the 1930s.
From their origins in East-Central Europe, the Slavic languages spread widely and are now spoken throughout most of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, parts of Central Europe, and the northern portion of Asia.
The Slavic languages are a group of related languages within the Indo-European family.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9002514   (801 words)

  
 Evenk language - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Evenk language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Evenk language - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Evenk language.
Here you will find more informations about Evenk language.
ISO 639-2: tut) is the largest of the northern group of the Manchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includes the Even and Negidal languages.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Evenk-language.html   (191 words)

  
 Evenks - China-related Topics E-H - China-Related Topics
The Evenks inhabit a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the Ob RiverRiver Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north, to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south.
According to the administrative structure, the Evenks inhabit, amonst others, the Tyumen and Tomsk regions, the Krasnoyarsk district (esp. Evenkia), the Irkutsk, Chita, RussiaChita, and Amur regions, Buryatia and Yakutia, the Khabarovsk district and the Sakhalin region.
There are approximately 26,000 Evenks in China, of whom nearly 23,000 live in the Hulunbuir region in the north of the Inner Mongolia Province, near the city of Hailar, ChinaHailar.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Evenks   (525 words)

  
 Moksha language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Moksha language is spoken mostly in South of the Republic of (Click link for more info and facts about Mordovia) Mordovia in (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
It is currently written using the Russian (An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) Cyrillic alphabet.
The language belongs to the Mordvinic branch of the (Click link for more info and facts about Finno-Ugric languages) Finno-Ugric languages.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mo/Moksha_language.htm   (158 words)

  
 Cover
With global warming, the boreal forest environment that the Evenk live in is being destroyed.
Upon meeting the Evenk, Favel says, some of the hopes and ideals he’d harboured at the outset of his expedition were shattered by what he describes as their “realistic attitude to the future”.
The closest observers were a group of Evenk herders about 30 km from the epicentre.
www.globetheatrelive.com /20032004season/sandbox/sleepinglandpreview.htm   (1460 words)

  
 The Evenk language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The language spoken by the Evenk, or Tungus proper, has fifty or so spoken dialects that can be divided into three groups: northern (in the basins of the Ob and Yenissei rivers), southern (around Lake Baikal) and eastern (from Yakutia to the Okhotsk Sea and Manchuria).
Approximately 30% of Evenk in Russia and 75% of those in China speak their language.
The first Evenk grammar was written, using the dialect of Nerchinsk, by M.A. Castren in 1856.
www.necep.net /xml/articles/article_48.xml   (279 words)

  
 Evenk --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Many of the Evenk are bilingual, and the Evenk language is not the native language of more than half of the ethnic Evenk.
Each clan was led by an assembly of elders, including the clan shaman (whose duties included healing the sick, traveling in the spirit world, and prophesying).
Most nomadic Evenk were settled, and their subsistence economy was supplemented by such activities as fur farming, agriculture, and industrial and government occupations.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9033353   (653 words)

  
 Project proposals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The vanishing of the language is caused by the fact that for many decades Evenk children were educated in Russia or Yakutiya.
In Russia there is a network of universities which give education to teachers of the Evenk language.
There is no teaching of the Evenk language in colleges and schools according to the methodology of teaching foreign languages.
www.npolar.no /ansipra/english/items/Evenk_language.html   (328 words)

  
 Evenk language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Evenk language (Evenki language) ((Click link for more info and facts about SIL) SIL: EVN,
(Click link for more info and facts about ISO 639-2) ISO 639-2: tut) is the largest of the northern group of the (Click link for more info and facts about Manchu-Tungus languages) Manchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includes the Even and Negidal languages.
The written language was created in the late (The decade from 1920 to 1929) 1920s.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ev/Evenk_language.htm   (155 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The literary language is based on the Oli dialect belonging to the eastern group of dialects.
The origin of the Evens is closely associated with that of the Evenks, and for a while the Evens were considered to be a territorial subgroup of the Evenks.
The role of the Russian language as a native language is unfortunately increasing (in 1959 it was 5.7 %).
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/evens.shtml   (1165 words)

  
 Evenks article - Evenks indigenous people Northern Indigenous Peoples Siberia Russia - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Evenks article - Evenks indigenous people Northern Indigenous Peoples Siberia Russia - What-Means.com
sv:evenker The Evenks (obsolete: Tungus) are a nomadic indigenous people, one of the Northern Indigenous Peoples (pop.
Evenks article - Evenks definition - what means Evenks
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 Evenks - Gurupedia
Russians, who acquired it from the Yakuts and the Siberian Tatars (in the Yakut language tongus) in the 17th century.
A large Evenk community (the Solon, the Tungus, the Ainak, the Nakagyr and the Orochon) lives in the northeast of China, close to the Soviet border, while others inhabit areas of
Anthropologically the Evenk belong to the Baikal or Paleo-Siberian group of the Mongolian type, originating from the ancient Paleo-Siberian people of the Yenisei River up to the
www.gurupedia.com /e/ev/evenks.htm   (484 words)

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