Evenki language
Spoken in
- Altaic Tungusisch Northern Tungusic Evenki
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Does ( other Altaic languages)
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The ewenkische language belongs to the Manchu - Tungusic languages. It is of the Evenki ( Evenki ) in many parts of Siberia, some regions of Mongolia and spoken in the northeast of the People's Republic of China.
Classification
Evenki is the Tungusic in the strict sense. Evenki has many regional variations.
From the grammatical structure wise, it is a highly agglutinative language, that is a lot of information to get the other languages in the form of separate words or even parts of sentences are, here mediated by prefixes and suffixes.
The most famous ewenkische word in German is a shaman.
Linguistic history
Influences of historical forms of the Evenki language have marked certain special features of belonging to the Turkic Yakut and Dolganischen in the last five centuries.
Current situation
The distribution area is larger than Europe. However, the Evenki are many places in the minority, so that at least half served in everyday life of other languages and is therefore considered the ewenkische language as endangered.
In the Russian census of 2002, 35 527 persons identified as Evenki, but only 7,580 claimed to speak fluent Evenki. Most live in Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia Evenki. Many Evenki Russia now speak mainly Russian, Yakut and Buryat.
The latest Chinese census showed 30,500 Evenki, of which 19,000 ewenkische dominated the language and only 3,000 Evenki could. Among the Evenki and Oroqen China, the Han Chinese is widespread. They live mainly in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang Province.
The number of Evenki in the Republic of Mongolia is estimated at 1,000, who live mainly in the province of Selenga.
Evenki as a written language
Evenki is traditionally an unwritten language. Efforts to the writing of the Evenki, there have been as part of state ethnic policy, particularly in the Soviet Union, more recently, probably in the context of Christian missionary activities.
Russia
For Evenki Russia there since the end of 20 years, a standard language. Your case is based since 1939 on the Cyrillic script:
China
In China, they used to override the Evenki either the Mongolian or Latin. In the latter, the meanings According to the official Lateinorthografie for the Chinese are ajar, unfamiliar with the " Q" for Europeans: