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The Even language /eɪˈvɛn/ also known as Lamut Ewen Eben Orich Ilqan (Russian: Эве́нский язы́к earlier also Ламутский язы́к) 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 5700 speakers (Russian census 2010).