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0. Introduction

The purpose of this note is to briefly address some issues in the classification of the Tungusic languages on the occasion of the current edition of the Bibliographie linguistique (Tol & Olbertz 2006, henceforth BL). When I was invited to oversee the Tungusic section of the BL in 2006, I took the opportunity to propose the introduction of a more fine-grained classification system for that section in order to better meet the high linguistic and bibliographical standards that are intrinsically tied to the BL: namely, that the system used for a given language family should, at least to a certain degree, reflect one of the better established linguistic classifications at hand and, at the same time, be practical to use in that it allows for a quick retrieval of bibliographic data. Therefore, the following classification was chosen:

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