Ėven
Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language of Siberia. Its closest relatives are Evenki and Negidal; the languages of the Southern Tungusic branch and Manchu are more distantly related. Tungusic languages are sometimes believed to constitute a branch of the disputed Altaic macro-family, together with Turkic and Mongolic.
Ėven is spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes.
Ėven is spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes.