Tags: Ethnic Group.

Negidals (негидальцы in Russian; self designation: элькан бэйэнин or elkan bayenin meaning local people. The ethnonym Negidal is a Russification of the Ewenki term ngegida which means coastal people.) are a people in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia who live along the Amgun River and Amur River. Their language belongs to the Tungusic language family and is very close to the Evenk language.

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