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A Grammar of Tundra Nenets
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20,000

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"The 2010 data estimate the number of speakers of the Nenets language in the Russian Federation as 21,926 and this estimate is probably quite accurate. However, the numbers include speakers of both Tundra and Forest Nenets, since the official trend in Russia is to view them as a single language. According to unofficial estimates, there may be about 1,500 speakers of Forest Nenets, so Tundra Nenets may be currently spoken by about 20,000 people."

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2014

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Russia

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Nenets District of the Arkhangelsk Province, Yamal-Nenets District of the Tyumen Province, Taimyr District of the Krasnoyarsk Region, and parts of the Komi Republic,

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Cyrillic

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Nenets District of the Arkhangelsk Province, Yamal-Nenets District of the Tyumen Province, Taimyr District of the Krasnoyarsk Region, and parts of the Komi Republic,

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Russian

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~25,000

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Year of info

2007

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Siberia and northern Russia

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Spoken in northwestern Siberia across a vast area in the Russian Federation, covering Yamal, Nadym and Taz counties and the northern parts of Ural (Priural’skiy) County in Yamal Nenets Autonomous District as well as most parts of Ust’-Yeniseysk County in Taymyr (Dolgan and Nenets) Autonomous District, and in the northernmost parts of European Russia including Nenets Autonomous District, the Kolguyev Island, the northern parts of Mezen County and formerly the Novaya Zemlya Islands in Arkhangel’sk Province, as well as Vorkuta Territory and at least formerly the northern parts of Inta Territory and Usinsk, Ust’-Tsil’ma and Izhma counties in the Komi Republic.

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Spoken in northwestern Siberia across a vast area in the Russian Federation, covering Yamal, Nadym and Taz counties and the northern parts of Ural (Priural’skiy) County in Yamal Nenets Autonomous District as well as most parts of Ust’-Yeniseysk County in Taymyr (Dolgan and Nenets) Autonomous District, and in the northernmost parts of European Russia including Nenets Autonomous District, the Kolguyev Island, the northern parts of Mezen County and formerly the Novaya Zemlya Islands in Arkhangel’sk Province, as well as Vorkuta Territory and at least formerly the northern parts of Inta Territory and Usinsk, Ust’-Tsil’ma and Izhma counties in the Komi Republic.

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Russian

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25,000

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Year of info

2003

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Arctic Russia, northwestern Siberia

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Russia

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67.033163,71.176756

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  1. "Tundra Nenets Grammar" HRELP Abstract
    Salminen, Tapani. 2003. ""Tundra Nenets Grammar" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=32.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=32
  2. Europe and North Asia
    Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
  3. Tundra Yurak dialect of Nenets
    "Tundra Yurak Dialect of Nenets." Online: http://multitree.org/codes/yrk-tun.html.
    http://multitree.org/codes/yrk-tun.html
  4. A Grammar of Tundra Nenets