368 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge

Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This book gives the first ever complete description of all this language's linguistic domain. Evenki is remarkable both for the vast area where it is spoken - from Western Siberia through the Amur region to the shores of the Arctic Ocean to Northern China - and for its immense number of dialects and sub-dialects.

Introduction, Representation of Evenki examples 1. SYNTAX 2. MORPHOLOGY 3. PHONOLOGY 4. IDEOPHONES AND INTERJECTIONS 5. LEXICON

Biography

Igor Nedjalkov