外国的语言学专家、学者较早就开始了对鄂温克语的研究。据笔者所掌握的资料,最早对鄂温克语进行研究的外国学者是俄国语言学家亚历山大·卡斯特伦(M.AlexanderCastr啨n’s,又译阿里克桑德尔),他在对包括鄂温克语在内的通古斯诸语言进行田野调查的基础上,于1856年撰写出《通古 Foreign linguistics experts and scholars started their research on Evenwin earlier. According to the author’s information, the earliest foreign researcher who studied Ewenki was the Russian linguist Alexander Castellan, who translated Ewenki On the basis of fieldwork conducted in the Tungusic languages, “Tonggu” was written in 1856