Nenets

Details

Instance of

language group, modern language, natural language

Subclass of

Enets-Nenets

Located in

Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Komi Republic, Murmansk Oblast

Country

Russia

different from

Enets

Ethnologue language status

6b Threatened

indigenous to

Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, North Ossetia–Alania, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

number of speakers, writers, or signers

21926, 24000

short name

ненец

topic's main category

Category:Nenets languages

UNESCO language status

3 definitely endangered

Wikimedia language code

yrk

writing system

Cyrillic script, Nenets alphabet

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