Also Known As:
Lamut, Orich, Ilqan, Ewen, Eben, lama-dī, Ewenische, Lamutische, Northeastern Tungus, Tungusisabatschi, Lamuti, эвенский язык, ламутский язык, эвэды торэн, eved'i toren
Dialects & Varieties
- Okhotsk
- Ola
- Tompon
- Kolyma-Omolon
- Upper Kolyma
- Indigirka
- Sakkyryr
- Kamchatka
- Arman
- Lamunkhin
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~7,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
4
Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
4
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~17,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
in northwestern Siberia, from the Lena to the Anadyr', with a small diaspora group in the Bystraya region of central Kamchatka
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Yakut, Koryak
Number of Other Language Speakers:
all
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
The language has limited written use with two orthographical standards (both in Cyrillic script, conforming to Yakut and Russian, respectively).
Recent Resources
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Even
This the Prodigal Son from the Gospel of Luke. Translated and recorded in Even, or Evenki.