The
Even language , also known as
Lamut,
Ewen,
Eben,
Orich,
Ilqan (, earlier also ), is a
Tungusic language spoken by the
Evens in Siberia. It is spoken by widely scattered communities of reindeer herders from
Kamchatka and the
Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the
River Lena in the west, and from the
Arctic coast in the north to the River
Aldan in the south. Even is an
endangered language, with only some 5,700 speakers (Russian census, 2010). Dialects are Arman, Indigirka, Kamchatka, Kolyma-Omolon, Okhotsk, Ola, Tompon, Upper Kolyma, Sakkyryr, Lamunkhin.