Languages

Evenki

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Evenki." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/evenki.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Evenki. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/evenki

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-evenki,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Evenki},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/evenki},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Evenki, also called Tungus, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, traditionally spoken across a wide area of Siberia in the Asian part of Russia as well as in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang in China. It is written mainly in the Cyrillic script, with Latin and, experimentally, Mongolian script also in use.

Facts

Speaker Count

24,000 1

24,000 (2024) per the infobox figure; the 2021 Russian census counted only 5,831 speakers within Russia specifically.

Status

Living 1

Region

Most of the Asian part of Russia; also Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang in China 1

Cross-Tradition Connections