Three stories in the Jeltulak and Ust’-Nyukzha dialects of Evenki

Stories and legends in Evenki have been extensively published, including several corpora. This paper presents three stories in the Eas‑ tern Evenki dialects spoken in the Amur region. These dialects are less studied than the Western ones spoken in the Krasnoyarsk region, and there are not many stories yet published from the Eastern dialects. The stories presented here were recorded in 2019 and 2023. The present paper offers the first attempt to list the phonetic distinctives of the Ust’- Nyukzha dialect. The Eastern dialects of the Amur region are close to the Sakha Republic, so they have borrowings from Sakha. The paper also mentions the issue of short and long vowels in the Eastern Evenki dialects, which has not received sufficient attention. Based on O. N. Mo‑ rozova’s experimental studies, contemporary Evenki is losing phone‑ mic vowel length, which now in many ways depends on the phone‑ tic context. The arrangement of long and short vowels in stories by native speakers confirms Morozova’s findings. Glossing was done in FLEx, and the list of glosses is based on the glosses in the Evenki Story Corpus, with slight modifications for better correspondence to the Leipzig glossing rules.