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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.
Russian (singular): Nenets. Plural: Nentsy. Formerly: Samoyed or Yurak. Related Topics: Siberian peoples. 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.
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Aug 3, 2018 · Russia’s most iconic reindeer folk, the Nenets, continue to practice their unique herding style in modern times. This practice has survived a tumultuous history, and the Nenets remain the keepers of Siberia’s Arctic despite new challenges threatening their traditions and way of life. The Nenet culture and way of life has survived the Soviet ...
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4 Notes. 5 References. 6 External links. 7 Credits. History. Nenets is the singular noun for the Nentsy people, ( ненец ‘nenets’, ненцы ‘nentsy’ (pl.) in Russian ), one group of the various peoples that inhabit the Russian tundra. This Samoyedic group includes the Enets, Selkup, and Nganasan people.
The Nenets, Komi, Mansi, and Khanty are virtually the only inhabitants in the highest parts of the Urals, especially in the north, where they have preserved their traditional ways of life—raising reindeer, hunting, and fishing.
Western Nenets have a long history of contact with Russians, some paying tribute to Novgorod by the thirteenth century, and to the Tatars shortly thereafter. As Russians began to colonize Siberia in. the mid-seventeenth century they met occasional fierce resistance from Nenets groups.
Nentsy. 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.
