Tunguz

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Tunguz - the Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia

Evenki, Ewenki, Tungus

Tungusic language, Tungusic - a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas

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Tunguse

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We now suddenly jump to the other end of the Eurasian continent, to a group of languages belonging to the Altaic family just as Turkic does: in Orok, among the Tunguz, the huchement 'us' is used to chase a dog away.

Further east, for example among the Tunguz in the far-eastern Asian tundra where there are hardly any horses left, the huchement is used to spur on harnessed reindeer.