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Evenk Peoples
Evenki or Evenk may refer to *Evenks, or Evenki, a people of Russia and China *Evenki languages, languages of Tungusic family **Evenki language, a subdivision of Evenki languages, spoken by Evenks *Evenk Autonomous Banner, a 3rd-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia, China *Evenk Ethnic Sum, a 4th-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia, China *Evenk Autonomous Okrug, a former subdivision of Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, now the Evenkiysky District See also * Evenkia (other) {{disambig, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evenks
The Evenks (also spelled Ewenki or Evenki based on their endonym )Autonym: (); russian: Эвенки (); (); formerly known as Tungus or Tunguz; mn, Хамниган () or Aiwenji () are a Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenks are recognised as one of the indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 38,396 ( 2010 census). In China, the Evenki form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognised by the People's Republic of China, with a population of 30,875 ( 2010 census). There are 537 Evenks in Mongolia (2015 census), called ''Khamnigan'' in the Mongolian language. Origin The Evenks or Ewenki are sometimes conjectured to be connected to the Shiwei people who inhabited the Greater Khingan Range in the 5th to 9th centuries, although the native land of the majority of Evenki people is in the vast regions of Siberia between Lake Baikal and the Amur River. The Ewenki language forms the northern branch of the Manchu- Tungusic language group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
