| Language name: | EVEN |
| UPSID number: | 2167 |
| Alternate name(s): | LAMUT |
| Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Tungus |
| This language has | 27 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.365689414 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b "t "d k g tS dZ s m "n nj N "l "r j I9 U9 I E u "o ie ia+ a_ O9 BA |
| Comment: | Even is spoken in the Yakut ASSR and the Kamchatka Peninsula of the USSR and along the Okhotsk Artic coast. All simple vowels can appear long. Low vowel /a_/ is grouped with the pharyngealized vowels to form one set of harmonizing vowels. /k/ is uvular before this set of vowels. |
| Source(s): | Novikova, K.A. 1960. Ocherki dialektov Evenskogo Jazyka: Ol'skij Govor 1. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow and Leningrad. |