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Title:Top09_GNM_3_4-fun-misunderst-dial2
Contributor:Dejan Matic
Alexandra Lavrillier
Contributor (annotator):Dejan Matic
Contributor (author):Natalia Golikova
Coverage:Russian Federation
Date:2009-06-18
Description:The session took place in GNM's house in the village of Topolinoe, Tompo region of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation, where DM and AL visited GNM. The recording was done in mono with a Zoom recorder, a Maranz recorder, and a digital handycam. The videofilm was transferred to the computer as .mov and later converted to mpeg2.
Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language 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. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project will not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings. 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. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund. The project aims at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group.
The speaker uses a couple of stories from her childhood to illustrate differences between Even dialects. The context is the migration of some 50 Evens from the Allakh-Jun' region (close to the Sea of Okhotsk coast) to her home region, Tompo, in the late 1950s/early 1960. The topic of the anecdotes is the misunderstandings the Tompo Evens had with the newcomers due to dialectal differences.
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video/x-mpeg2
text/x-toolbox-text
application/pdf
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0019-D639-6
Publisher:Dejan Matic & Alexandra Lavrillier
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:Discourse
Unspecified
Even language
Russian language
Subject (ISO639):eve
rus
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Natalia Golikova. 2009-06-18. Dejan Matic & Alexandra Lavrillier.
Terms: area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve iso639_rus

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Country: Russian Federation
Area: Europe


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