Evenki folk song performed by an Uchur Evenk
Borisova Raisa Yakovlevna, Buta clan, was born on November 15, 1932 in the village of Gonam, Aldan district, Yakut ASSR.
Performer of folk songs and round dance chants. She spoke Evenki, Yakut and Russian.
The chants of the Uchur Evenki of the Buta clan begin with a double repetition of the word "eyan" - a flow that is distinguished by its protracted tone:
Эян-эян ноноптылбар дялдадямэр
Ноноптыткар эвэнкиткар
Колкостулэ нулгиктанэл
Эмэвсэкэр колхос овчал
Нонон гунмури колкосваду
Биденалтын хавалдянал
Previously relatives
Previously Evenks
They came to the collective farm through the taiga
Having arrived, they created the collective farm
They lived and worked in the collective farm "Nonon".
Nikolaeva Nadezhda Prokopievna,
Senior Lecturer
at the Department of Northern Philology of the Institute of Languages and Culture of the Peoples of the North-East of the Russian Federation at NEFU,
Ignatenko Lyarido Andreyevna
5th year student of the Institute of Foreign Philology and Regional Studies of NEFU