How is Evenki traditional vocabulary used
in the village of Khatystyr in the Aldan district today

   During the expedition to the village of Khatystyr in the Aldan district, an ethnolinguistic study was conducted, which yielded very interesting information. The Evenki of the village of Khatystyr are fluent in the Yakut language, and Evenki vocabulary is widely used in everyday communication, which reflects the traditional life of the Evenki people. As a result of the ethnolinguistic analysis, the expedition participants found that the most frequently used vocabulary in everyday communication is everyday vocabulary and reindeer herding terminology.

   В ходе экспедиции в с. Хатыстыр Алданского района было проведено этнолингвистические исследование, которое дало весьма любопытные сведения. Эвенки села Хатыстыр свободно владеют якутским языком, в повседневном общении широко используется эвенкийская лексика, которая отражает традиционную жизнь эвенкийского народа. В результате этнолингвистического анализа участники экспедиции установили, что наиболее часто употребляемой лексикой повседневного общения является лексика быта и оленеводческая терминология.

   chengei – a stick tied around a deer's neck;

   kedere – a leather mill;

   gulik – a platform on piles where bear bones are stored;

   delken – a storage shed on piles;

   bur – a male deer;

   chuchun – a round, jagged scraper with a handle (for tanning skins);

   nyami – a female domestic deer;

   batana – a hard birch bark bag covered with skin;

   nenchen – a hornless wild deer;

   kuraika – a male wild deer;

   gogo – a female;

   sachari – a female reindeer;

   khoroi – a two-year-old male;

   chonoku; iktene – a three-year-old male;

   negarkan – a 4-year-old male

   mutu – a 5-year-old male;

   nyogu – advanced;

   doptun – a rug;

   nyu’udye – a place where the hunted animal is butchered;

   devun – a place where all the entrails remain;

   byra – a river;

   kurumu – high fur boots.

   This is not just a sprinkling of individual words, but a full penetration of Evenki terminology into Yakut speech.

   This situation is the result of a long historical coexistence of two cultures and languages, where the Yakut language serves as an interethnic communication language, and Evenki is preserved as a language reflecting the specifics of the traditional way of life.

   Nikolaeva Nadezhda Prokopievna,
Senior Lecturer
at the Department of Northern Philology
ща Institute of Languages and Culture of the Peoples of the North-East of the Russian Federation, NEFU

Ignatenko Lyarido Andreyevna
5th year student
of Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies, NEFU.

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