• The most detailed phonetic description concerns Ola

the Altaic language family • About 7.000 native speakers (census 2002) – an overstated number • Dialectal diversity: from 11 to 14 dialectal varieties • Most dialects are endangered (three of them are being documented within DoBes-project) • The dialect of Ola was chosen as a basis for literary Even Ola 3 The vowel harmony in Even • all vowels are divided into two sets • within one word vowels of only one set are possible • stem vowels determine suffix vowel