Tungusic languages

The Tungusic languages form a family spoken across Siberia and northeastern China. Its members include Evenki, Even, and Manchu.

Evenki language: A Tungusic language spoken across Siberia and parts of China and Mongolia. Evenki is one of the family's most widely distributed languages.
Agglutinative language: A language that forms words by joining affixes, each typically expressing a distinct grammatical function. Tungusic languages commonly build complex words through sequences of suffixes.
Proto-Tungusic language: The reconstructed ancestor from which the Tungusic languages descended. Comparative evidence is used to reconstruct the family's common ancestor.
Endangered language: A language at risk of losing speakers and ceasing to be transmitted across generations. Many Tungusic languages face declining intergenerational transmission.
Mongolic languages: A language family that includes Mongolian and related languages spoken across Inner Asia. Mongolic languages have long been in contact with Tungusic communities.
Even language: A Tungusic language spoken by Even communities in northeastern Siberia. Even represents a distinct northern branch of the family.
Grammatical case: A grammatical system that marks a noun's role through its form or associated words. Case suffixes encode relations such as location, direction, and possession.
Comparative method: A method for reconstructing ancestral languages by comparing systematic similarities among related languages. It establishes shared inheritance behind similarities among Tungusic languages.
Language revitalization: Efforts to strengthen a language's use, learning, and transmission within a community. Community programs address declining use of several Tungusic languages.
Turkic languages: A language family spoken across a broad area from Siberia to southeastern Europe and western China. Turkic languages share northern Asian contact zones with Tungusic languages.

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Indigenous peoples of SiberiaRelated: Several Siberian Indigenous peoples speak languages in this family.