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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.
In certain areas the influences of the Yakut and the Buryat languages are strong.
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   (189 words)

  
 Tungusic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tungusic languages (or Manchu-Tungus languages) are spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria.
Jurchen - an extinct language of Jin dynasty.
The Tungusic languages are of an agglutinative morphological type, and some of them have complex case systems and elaborate patterns of tense and aspect marking.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tungusic_languages   (372 words)

  
 Language
Context-sensitive language A context-sensitive language is a Chomsky hierarchy.
Gan language Gan is a dialect of the Jiangxi province.
Iban language Iban is the spoken language of ethnic Dayak Iban in Borneo.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/language.html   (6991 words)

  
 Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Koryak language
The Koryak language in contrast to the Chukchi language, and the Alyutor and Kerek languages is characterized by considerable dialectal variety.
Lexically the Koryak language is close to the Chukchi language, dialects of the settled Koryak, mainly the Palana dialects are close in their vocabulary with the Alutor language, which is sometimes considered to be a dialect of the Koryak language.
The Koryak language nowadays functions as the language of oral communication between representatives of the elder and middle generations, the command of the language in the younger generation is not high.
lingsib.iea.ras.ru /en/languages/koryak.shtml   (1815 words)

  
 Evenki alphabet, pronunciation and language
Evenki, which is also known as Evenk, Avenki, Avenk or Tungus, has much in common with Mongolian and related languages.
Evenki was first written during the 1920s with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet.
Azerbaijani, Chuvash, Evenki, Gagauz, Kazak, Kyrghyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut
www.omniglot.com /writing/evenki.htm   (215 words)

  
 Tungusic Research Group: Bibliography
A sketch of vowel harmony in the Tungus languages.
Hezheyu Jianzhi [A Grammatical Sketch of the Hezhen Language].
Xibo yu Jianzhi [A Grammatical Sketch of the Sibo Language].
www.dartmouth.edu /~trg/biblio.html   (2590 words)

  
 THE NGANASANS
The near 20 percent fluctuation in the figures for native language speakers is quite inexplicable.
In the past it was common that a Nganasan would be familiar with the language of the Dolgans, the Evenks or the Nenets (and vice versa) but since the 1950s Russian has developed as the lingua franca.
She knew nothing of the language or customs of the Nganasans, nevertheless she set upon an unrestrained attack on their way of life and tiraded against institutions such as shamanism.
www.samoyed.org /NGANASANS.html   (1968 words)

  
 Lenore Grenoble: Morphosyntactic Change: The Impact of Russian on Evenki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Evenki, a Tungusic language spoken in Siberia, is a seriously endangered language, with an estimated total of fewer than 9000 speakers today.
There is a strong tendency to replace native Evenki deontic (personal) modals with a borrowed modal construction based on the Russian impersonal modal /nado/ `it is necessary'.
There is a general shift from parataxis and/or participial and converbal clauses to a Russian pattern of conjoined phrases and/or subordination.
odur.let.rug.nl /lic/abs/grenoble.html   (206 words)

  
 SFU Museum: Russian Traditional Village Life
Of particular interest is the example of an Evenki shaman's dwelling and ritual space including, galleries of wood carvings depicting spiritual animals, birds and fish.
Evenki bird spirit poles are carved spiritual items that feature several types of birds mounted on 15-20 foot slender poles.
These poles, in conjunction with the moose boards, pike logs, ancestor figures and the shaman's tent or yarnga are arranged in the museum in a traditional floor plan suggestive of shamanic properties.
www.sfu.ca /archaeology/museum/russia/shamanism.htm   (384 words)

  
 www.FamousChinese.com Search Results Page
The Korean language is the most widely used language in Korea, and is the official language of both North Kore...
The Haner language (漢兒言語) was a Chinese language heavily influenced by non-Han...
The Evenk language (Evenki language) (SIL codeSIL: EVN, ISO 639-2: tut) is the largest of the north...
www.famouschinese.com /wiki/Scots_language   (185 words)

  
 Ice-Floe: Contributors by Language: Even, Evenki, Finnish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Petr Neustroyev was born in 1942 in Tompo ulus in Yakutia, Russia.
Alexander Khromov was born in 1937 in Yukutia, Russia.
Jaana Kokko was born in 1972 in Joensuu, Finland.
www.icefloepress.org /countries3.shtml   (2218 words)

  
 GeoNative - Evenki - Evedy
Evenki herria Siberiako taigako lurralde zabal bat okupatzen du: 2,5 milioi km2.
Egiazki, Jakutian bertan evenki gehiago dago (12.000 lagun).
Txinan ere evenki talde zenbait dago (Solon, Tungus, Ainak, Nakagir eta Orotxon herriak, ahaide hurbilak edo azpi-taldeak denak).
www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/evenki.html   (260 words)

  
 Evenki - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The Evenki migrated from the Baikal region around ad 1000.
Russians entered the region early in the 17th century and encountered the Evenki, trading...
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ca.encarta.msn.com /Evenki.html   (54 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Evenki: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China and is remarkable both for the vast area where it is spoken and for its immense number of dialects and sub-dialects.
The first ever complete description of this language, the text centers around the description of Evenki syntax and rich verbal and nominal morphology forms.
Lexical groups are presented together with the basic Evenki vocabulary.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415026407   (316 words)

  
 Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : L
The irony of this project is that many African languages will be not be scribable on the Internet because virtually no software applications or operating systems, and relatively few fonts, are available which support necessary encodings for all or most of the characters necessary to represent African languages (most of which use extended Latin alphabets).
Loglan (Loglan ~ Logical language) A synthetic, algorithmic language, originally developed in the 1950s, which uses the Latin (Roman) alphabet and whose vocabulary and grammar are designed to be syntactically unambiguous.
The language is called algorithmic because one of the sources of words is algorithmic construction of new words from other words.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/l.htm   (4115 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Negidal language belongs to the Northern or Tungus Group of the Manchu-Tungus languages.
It is kin first and foremost to the Evenki language but also, as seen from certain characteristic features, to the Orochi and Udeghe languages.
In the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, the Negidal culture displayed typical characteristics of the Evenki forest-culture (hunting, conical tents, clothing, boats made of birch bark, etc.).
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/negidals.shtml   (773 words)

  
 Cincius, V. I. (В. И. Цинциус): The Tungus (Evenki) language (Эвенкийский язык) - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Cincius, V. Цинциус): The Tungus (Evenki) language (Эвенкийский язык) - LanguageServer - University of Graz
This book is a part of a multivolume encyclopaedia “Languages of the World” (the Eurasian Series), which is currently being prepared at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The present volume describes old and modern languages of the Mongolian and Tungus linguistic families, as well as the Japanese and the Korean languages.
languageserver.uni-graz.at /ls/art?id=776   (192 words)

  
 Evenki OCR, Evenki Reference, Evenki Software - Windows,
The Evenki live by hunting, fishing, and reindeer-herding.
Their language is of the Tungusic group, which forms a branch of the Altaic family.
Copyright © Kenneth Katzner, The Languages of the World, Published by Routledge.
www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Evenki.htm   (194 words)

  
 languagehat.com: January 2003 Archives
For once, an African language (Wolof) is accorded the respect routinely given European ones: the lyrics are provided in the original as well as in translation.
I had known that the Mordvin language included two main dialects, Erza (or Erzya; the z is palatal) and Moksha, that had little or no mutual comprehensibility, but I thought it was parallel to, say, Upper and Lower Sorbian.
A couple of examples: evolution from Phoenecian to Latin, and language families (useful for checking on French language names: of the Dravidian languages, "Telougou" is obvious, but "Tamoul" and "Canara" are not).
www.languagehat.com /archives/2003_01.php   (8915 words)

  
 My Father's World Q&A -- Homeschool Christian.com
Marie Hazell is a Speech and Language Specialist with a Master's degree.
After completing her degree, she taught in a special language kindergarten where her interest in teaching children and adapting to their various learning styles developed.
This is a complete program (you just add math and language arts) that includes art projects and songs from around the world, hands-on projects such as making flags and maps, and so much more.
www.homeschoolchristian.com /ChristianEd/Hazell.html   (2221 words)

  
 ODIN results for language Evenki (EVN)
For those results that indicate Verified as "Highest" or "High", all instances of IGT in the document have been manually verified both to be IGT and to be in the language specified.
"Low" indicates that the language was not verified, although the instances discovered are IGT.
For more information about the language selected, click the language name or language code above and the Ethnologue report page for the language will be opened.
www.csufresno.edu /odin/igt_urls.php?lang=EVN   (243 words)

  
 Ethnologue 14 report for language code:EVN
The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
Manegir may be a dialect or related language.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=EVN   (191 words)

  
 Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - MN Mongolei - Sprache, Langue, Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ethnologue - Korean - Language of MN (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kor
ethnologue - Northern Chinese - Language of MN (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cmn
ethnologue - Northern Mongolian - Language of MN (E3)(L1) http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bxm
www.etymologie.info /~e/m_/mn-sprach.html   (1050 words)

  
 Central Eurasian Studies U520-Kara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The living forms of the Evenki language, the main dialectal groups.
The earlier Latin and the present standard Russian Cyrillic orthography for Evenki.
Reading knowledge of Russian helps in consulting Vasilevich's ethnographical sketch on Evenkis, her Evenki-Russian and Boldyrev's Russian-Evenki dictionary, Voskoboinikov's Evenki folklore as well as Tsintsius' comparative lexicon, but not required.
www.indiana.edu /~ceus/u520-evenki-structure-kara.html   (176 words)

  
 Whaley.CV
1997 An Introduction to Language Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language.
to appear ‘Evaluating the Impact of Literacy: The Tungusic Languages,’ with Lenore Grenoble, in, Languages in Conflict, ed.
1997 ‘Evenki Language-Dialect Continuum: A First Round,’ with L. Grenoble, 10th Biennial Conference on the Non-Slavic Languages of the Former Soviet Union, University of Chicago.
www.dartmouth.edu /~classics/Faculty/Whaley.CV.html   (1567 words)

  
 Adherents.com
"EVENKI (EWENKI, TUNGUS, CHAPOGIR, AVANKI, AVANKIL, SOLON, KHAMNIGAN) [EVN] 12,000 mother tongue speakers (43%) out of an ethnic population of 28,000 in Russia (1979 census); 10,000 in China (1990); 2,000 in Mongolia; 24,000 in all countries...
The rituals of Evenki shamans take the form of chanting, dancing, and beating on the ungtuvun...
The rituals of shamans are intended to heal the sick, ease difficult childbirth, foretell the future, send the souls of the departed on their way to the world of the dead, and in general to ensure the people's well-being.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_285.html   (3481 words)

  
 Various articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The project is accomplished through various sorts of support from state executive bodies of the Evenki A.O. (Governor B.N. Zolotarev and Vice Governor N.A. Kuleshova).
The goals of the summer camp are: 1) training of Evenki children which do not master their ethnic language in colloquial speech; 2) acquisition of skills in traditional subsistence; 3) introduction of individual talented children of the Evenki A.O. to arts and crafts (painting, song, decorative applications).
During the first session participants will listen to the Evenki language.
www.npolar.no /ansipra/english/items/Urikit.html   (250 words)

  
 Aboriginal Peoples of the Russian and European Norths - Links to Resources
Forest Enets language and Tundra Enets language from Ethnologue
The Sami in Sweden from Euromosaic, a study of minority languages in the EU The Sami in Finland from Euromosaic, a study of minority languages in the EU The Sami of Norway by Elina Helander, ODIN
Introduction to the Study of Tungusic Languages, by Lindsay Whaley, 1998.
www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /~agraham/nost202/aboppsru.htm   (2639 words)

  
 Ice-Floe: Contributors A - D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Her first language in Tlingit; she began to learn English upon entering school at the age of eight.
Lyubov Demina was born in 1950 in the village of Balygychan on the banks of Kolyma River.
One of the last speakers of the Forest Yukagir dialect, she lives in Nelemnoye, Yakutia, where she teaches the Yukagir language in a primary school.
www.icefloepress.org /contriba-z.shtml   (3779 words)

  
 Phrasebase™ - EVENKI LANGUAGE Facts and Information - EVENKI Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Region where spoken: Hulunbuir Banners Ewenki, Moriadawa, Oronchon, Chen Bargu, Arong, Ergune East, and Huisuomu in Inner Mongolia; Nale Prefecture in Heilongjiang Province; and a few in Xinjiang.
We use a variety of sources for compiling these facts and information about Evenki Language.
Base your opinion on factors such as how easy it is to learn, how it sounds, how well you can use it to convey your thoughts, etc...
63.217.229.7 /languages/index.php?cat=132   (234 words)

  
 Prayer Calender
Together we can bring minority peoples of the north, those that serve God among them, various ministry needs, projects and future visions in the presence of the Lord...
Prayer Calender for the ministry amongst the Evenki
That the message of the Saviour and His love for the Evenki people will be understood and accepted
www.megalink.ru /~vasilii/page5e.html   (211 words)

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