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Nenets (in former work also Yurak) is a pair of closely related 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 low.
Tundra Nenets is a Uralic language spoken in European Russia and North-Western Siberia. It is the largest and best-preserved language in the Samoyedic group. [4] : 1–2. Tundra Nenets is closely related to the Nganasan and Enets languages, and more distantly to Selkup.
Nenets belongs to the Samoyedic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages. It is spoken by about 27,000 people in Siberia, particularly in the Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets, and Taymyr Autonomous Okrugs, in the Komi Republic, and in the eastern parts of Murmansk Oblast on the Kola peninsula in the Russian Federation.
The Nenets language is on the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic language family, with two major dialects, Forest Nenets and Tundra Nenets. Ethnologue says that in Siberia , most young people are still fluent in Nenets, whereas in European Russia , they tend to speak Russian.
The five samoyedic languages are Tundra Nenets, Forest Nenets, Enets, Nganasan and Selkup. Tundra Nenets and Forest Nenets are very similar and are sometimes considered to be dialects rather than languages.
The traditional territory of the Tundra Nenets language extends along a vast tundra zone from the Kanin Peninsula in the west to the Yenisei River delta and the Yenisei Bay in the east. The northern boundary is formed by the Arctic Ocean, Tundra Nenets being also spoken on several of its islands.
Nenets, ethnolinguistic group inhabiting northwestern Russia, from the White Sea on the west to the base of the Taymyr Peninsula on the east and from the Sayan Mountains on the south to the Arctic Ocean on the north. At present the Nenets are the largest group speaking Samoyedic, a branch of the Uralic language
