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The Nenets (in former work also Yurak) language, refers to either of two languages spoken in northern Russia by the Nenets
people. They are often treated as being two dialects of the same language, but they are very different and mutual intelligibility
is very low. The languages are Tundra Nenets, the bigger language of the two in number of speakers, spoken by some 30,000
to 40,000 people in an area stretching from the Kanin Peninsula to the Yenisei River; and Forest Nenets, spoken by 1,000 to
1,500 people around the Agan, Pur, Lyamin and Nadym rivers. The Nenets languages are classified in the Uralic language family,
making them distantly related to some European national languages – namely Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian – in addition
to other minority languages spoken in Russia. Both of the Nenets languages have been greatly influenced by Russian. Tundra
Nenets has, to a lesser degree, been influenced by Komi, and Northern Khanty. Forest Nenets has also been influenced by Eastern
Khanty. Tundra Nenets is well documented, considering its status as an indigenous- and minority language, also having a literary
tradition going back to the 1930s, while Forest Nenets was first written during the 1990s and is only very little documented.
Apart from the word 'Nenets', only one other Nenets word has entered the English language: 'parka', their traditional long
hooded jacket made from skins and sometimes fur. |
Names (more)[en] Forest Nenets language[fr] Nénètse des forêts [nn] Skogsnenetsisk [ru] Ненецкий лесной язык [vi] Tiếng Nenet Rừng núi |
Language type : Living
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