Evenki grammar

This article outlines the grammar of the Evenki language spoken in Russia, in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts.

Example sentences will be taken from either the Evengus (Russian: Эвенгус) website, or from Nadezhda Bulatova and Lenore Grenoble's book Evenki Grammar in 1997.

[1] For simplicity, archiphonemes will be used for alternating vowels in suffixes, with capital О (O) for а/э/о (a/ə/o), А (A) for а/э (a/ə), and their iotated counterparts Ё (JO) for я/е/ё (ja/jə/jo), Я (JA) for я/е (ja/jə).

Here are some rules of forming Evenki plurals:[2] Evenki nouns are inflected for 13 cases: nominative, accusative, accusative indefinite, dative, allative, locative, prolative (longitudinal), allative locative, allative prolative, ablative, elative, instrumental, and comitative cases.

"Миндӯ1SG-DATӈинакинdogа̄чин.NEG.Миндӯ ӈинакин а̄чин.1SG-DAT dog NEG.I don't have a dog.Дю̄дӯвӣhouse-DAT-REFLэнинмӣmother-1SGа̄чин.NEG.Дю̄дӯвӣ энинмӣ а̄чин.house-DAT-REFL mother-1SG NEG.My mother is not at her home.Unlike other nominals, personal pronouns in Evenki tends to be irregularly inflected:[26]