Evenki people

Evenki
Эвэнкил
An Evenki family in the early 1900s
Regions with significant populations
 Russia39,226[1]
China30,875[2]
 Mongolia537[3]
 Ukraine48[4]
Languages
Evenki, Yakut, Russian, Chinese
Religion
Shamanism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism[5][6][7]
Related ethnic groups
Evens, Oroqens, Oroch
Evenki people
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese鄂温克族
Traditional Chinese鄂溫克族
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinÈwēnkè Zú
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese埃文基族
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinĀiwénjī Zú
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicХамниган
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCKhamnigan
Russian name
RussianЭвенки
RomanizationEvenki
Evenki name
EvenkiЭвэнкил / Evenkīl / ᠧᠸᠧᠩᠺᠢ

The Evenki,[a] also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus, are a Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenki 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).[2] There are 537 Evenki in Mongolia (2015 census), called Khamnigan in the Mongolian language.[3]

  1. ^ Ethnic groups in Russia Archived 2021-12-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2010 census, Rosstat. Retrieved 15 February 2012 (in Russian)
  2. ^ a b "Evenk Archives – Intercontinental Cry". Intercontinental Cry. Archived from the original on 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  3. ^ a b "2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING BY-CENSUS OF MONGOLIA: NATIONAL REPORT". National Statistics Office of Mongolia. 20 February 2017. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  4. ^ "About number and composition population of Ukraine by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001". Ukraine Census 2001. State Statistics Committee of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Ewenki, Solon" (PDF). Asiaharvest.org. Retrieved 17 August 2018.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Ewenki, Tungus" (PDF). Asiaharvest.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  7. ^ Шубин А. Ц. Краткий очерк этнической истории эвенков Забайкалья (XVIII-XX век). Улан-Удэ: Бурят. кн. изд-во, 1973. С. 64, 65 (in Russian)


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