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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.
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.
There are two main dialects of Nenets: Tundra Nenets and Forest Nenets, and there is only limited mutual intelligibility between them. About 95% of Nenets speakers speak Tundra Nenets. Nenets first appeared in written form in the 1830s in religious texts published by Venyamin Smirnov, an archimandrite or superior bishop in the Eastern Orthodox ...
ALTERNATE NAMES: Yurak, Samoyed LOCATION: Russia (Northwestern Siberia) POPULATION: 41,302 (2002 Census) LANGUAGE: Nenets RELIGION: Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Native beliefs. INTRODUCTION. For thousands of years, people have lived in the harsh arctic environment in what is today Russia.
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.
The Nenets are an ethnic group of 35,000 nomadic reindeer herders who live in northern Russia and speak a language related to Finnish. They are also known as the Nentsy, Yurak or Yurak-Samoyeds.
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When talking amongst themselves Nenets speak a language that is not related to Russian, but is of the same family as Estonian or Finnish.
