Evenki
Tungusic language spoken by the Evenks in Siberia
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Summary
Evenki is a language[1]. Evenki ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,925 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3], People's Republic of China[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5]
- Subclass of: Northwestern Tungusic[6]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[7], Mongolian[8], Evenki alphabet[9], Latin script[10]
- Commons category: Evenki language[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Evenki language[12]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 27,500[13], 15,800[14]
- Topic has template: Q104412536[15]
- Native label: ᠧᠠᠩᠬᠢ[16], Эвэды̄ турэ̄н[17]
- Short name: эвенкийский[18]
- Different from: Even[19]
- UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[20]
- Indigenous to: Evenki people[21], Heilongjiang[22], Xinjiang[23], Eastern Siberia[24], Russian Far East[25]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/EVN[26], https://afbo.info/languages/39[27]
- Ethnologue language status: 7 Shifting[28]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[29], agglutinative language[30]
Why It Matters
Evenki has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Evenki is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]