Sub-project Evenki

Evenki belongs to the northern group of the Tungusic languages and is spoken by about 5000 people in the eastern part of Siberia.

The area in which speakers of Evenki can be found stretches in a north-south direction from the Arctic Ocean to Russia's Chinese border and in a west-east direction from the Yenisei River to the Pacific Ocean.

In accordance with this large territory, Evenki is strongly dialectally structured; larger dialect groups are North Evenki, South Evenki and East Evenki.

In the INEL project, resources of North Evenki (spoken on the Taimyr Peninsula and on the lower reaches of the Yenisei; Khantaysky, Ilimpiysky and Erbogachonsky dialects) and South Evenki (spoken on the middle reaches of the Yenisei; Sym dialect) are being worked on. North Evenki is in close contact with the languages of the Taimyr Peninsula (especially Nganasan, Enets and Dolgan), whereas South Evenki is in contact with Selkup and Ketian.

The INEL Evenki corpus 1.0 is available for download under Open Access conditions and via web-based search.