Forest Nenets | |
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нешаӈ вата, nešaŋ vata | |
Native to | Northern Russia |
Ethnicity | Forest Nenets |
Native speakers | (1,500 cited 1989)[1] (5% of Nenets speakers) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | fore1274 |
ELP | Forest Nenets |
Forest Nenets is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Forest Nenets is a Samoyedic language spoken in northern Russia, around the Agan, Pur, Lyamin and Nadym rivers, by the Nenets people.[4] It is closely related to the Tundra Nenets language, and the two are still sometimes seen as simply being dialects of a single Nenets language, despite there being low mutual intelligibility between the two.[quantify] The next closest relatives are Nganasan and Enets, after them Selkup, and even more distantly the other Uralic languages.
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