The name Tunguska, a region of eastern Siberia bounded on the west by the Tunguska rivers and on the east by the Pacific Ocean, has its origin from the Tungus people (Evenks).The Languages of the Seat of War in the East, by Max Müller, 1855 Russian was likely taken from East Turkic (literally, 'wild pig, boar', from Old Turkic ),Tungus. (n.d.) American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. (2011). Retrieved May 2, 2019 from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tungus although some scholars prefer derivation from the Chinese word (, 'Eastern Barbarians', cf. 'Tungusic').Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, The Collected Works of M. A. Czap p. 88 This "chance similarity in modern pronunciation led to the once widely held assumption that the Eastern Hu were Tungusic in language. However, there is little basis for this theory."Pulleyblank (1983), p. 452
