E·ven·ki

(ĭ-wĕng′kē, ĭ-vĕng′-) also E·wen·ki (ĭ-wĕng′kē)

n. pl. Evenki or E·ven·kis also Ewenki or E·wen·kis

1. A member of a people inhabiting a large area of eastern Siberia in Russia and northern Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolia) in China.

2. The Tungusic language of the Evenki. In both senses also called Tungus.

[Russian, Evenki people, from Evenki ə´wənkī.]

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Evenki

(əˈvɛŋkɪ)

npl Evenki

1. (Peoples) a Tungus people of E Siberia

2. (Languages) the language of this people

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E•ven•ki

(ɪˈwɛŋ ki, ɪˈvɛŋ-)

n., pl. -kis, (esp. collectively) -ki for 1.

1. a member of a people of central and SE Siberia and adjacent parts of Mongolia and NE China.

2. the Tungusic language of the Evenki.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Evenki - a member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia Ewenki
	2.	Evenki - the Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia Tunguz, Ewenki, Tungus Tungusic language, Tungusic - a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas

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Cluster 2 (Circumpolar Eurasia): Eastern Sami; Ainu; Dolgan; Sym Evenki; Nganasan; Enets; Negidals; Mansi; Tundra Nenets; Southern Selkup; Northern Selkup; Ket, Yug; Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks); Northern Khanty; Nivkh; Far East Evenki; Nanai; Udihe; Oroch; Yukaghir; Evens (Lamuts); Baikal Evenki; Western Evenki; Yakut; Wotians; Sorbs;

A LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF WORLD MYTHS

At the end of the eighteenth century, Ossip Shumachov, chief of the Batouline clan of the Evenki, a Tunguisic group occupying a huge but sparsely populated area of Siberia, found something frozen in a bluff, which only became manifest after five summers of thawing.

Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

For example, in Yakutia, the Yakuts, who came relatively recently from the south, do not consume raw brain, but the Evenki, who are descendants of the first reindeer herders who migrated north and northeast from the region of Lake Baikal (32), still continue to locally maintain old dietary practices.

History of Taenia saginata Tapeworms in Northern Russia

NADA HAMEED Photographer Alexander Khimushin with Evenki women in inner Mongolia.

Preserving cultures with a camera

It was employed by, among others, Itkin ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 2002) for Veps, Belyaev (2010) for Ossetic, Thuilier (2011) for Hungarian, Grenoble (2014) for Evenki, Jadhav (2014) for Marathi.

Grammaticalization of new cases in Beserman Udmurt

Blood samples were collected from Altay sheep (AL) from Fuhai County in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shandong large-tailed sheep (SD) from Liaocheng City in Shandong Province, and small-tailed Hulun Buir sheep (sHL) from the Autonomous County of Evenki in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of Chinese indigenous sheep with different tail types and an analysis of phylogenetic evolution in domestic sheep

In my Taiga Nomads films (1992) shamanism was part of the life of the Evenki people living on the taiga areas of Siberia.

Spirits and ceremonies: how to construct religious experience in documentary film

Shamans are found around the globe, but the word shaman, meaning "one who knows," comes from the Evenki, an indigenous reindeer-herding people in northern Siberia.

Looking back on a life of teaching: the educational journey of a teacher

Our sample did not include the Chechen and Ingush Republics, as well as remote and sparsely populated region of the Far North (Nenets, Yamal-Nenets, Taimyr Autonomous Region, the Evenki Autonomous District, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Sakhalin Oblast).

Information retrieval through communicative formulae within the internet interaction

In Blagoveshchensk's museum, the history of the region prior to the arrival of Russian settlers describes at length the Manchu, Evenki, and other ethnic groups, but makes no mention of the Chinese.

Territorial phantom pains (and other cartographic anxieties)

Fast forward six decades and the same sorts of demographic observations are being made: "Evenki is spoken by roughly ten thousand people spread throughout Siberia.

Work on Endangered Languages