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Enets
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Samoyedic pair of languages by the Enets people in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Key facts
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Krasnoyarsk Krai , along the lower Yenisei River
- Ethnicity
- 260 Enets people (2010 census)
- Native speakers
- 69 (2020 census, Russia) , 18 (2001, Ukraine)
- Language family
- Uralic Samoyedic (core) Enets– Nenets Enets
- Iso 639 3
- Either:, enf – Forest Enets, enh – Tundra Enets
- Glottolog
- enet1250
- Elp
- Forest Enets
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- linguistic typology
- syllabic language
- writing system
- Cyrillic script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 119
- indigenous to
- Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District
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Encyclopedic overview
Enets (Forest Enets: Онэй база) is a Samoyedic language of Northern Siberia spoken on the Lower Yenisei within the boundaries of the Taimyr Municipality District, a subdivision of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian Federation. Enets belongs to the Northern branch of the Samoyedic languages, in turn a branch of the Uralic language family.
Status
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enets” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.