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Enets is a Samoyedic
Samoyedic languages

File:Uralic-Yukaghir.pngThe Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether....
 language spoken by the Enets people along the lower Yenisei River
Yenisei River

Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider....
 in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. There are two distinct dialects - Forest Enets and Tundra Enets - which may be considered separate languages. There are only about seventy speakers in total, with slightly more speaking Forest Enets. Most speakers are middle-aged or older, and all speak Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 as a second language. It is closely related to Nenets
Nenets language

Nenets is a language spoken by the Nenets people in northern Russia. It belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic languages family with the Finno-Ugric languages....
, which it was formerly regarded as a dialect of, and to Nganasan
Nganasan language

Nganasan language is a language of the Nganasan people. It was spoken by 1,063 and by 750 people in the southwestern and central parts of the Taymyr Peninsula....
.

ough an alphabet was developed for the Enets language at the end of the 1980s, it has yet to be made official.






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Enets is a Samoyedic
Samoyedic languages

File:Uralic-Yukaghir.pngThe Samoyedic languages are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by perhaps 30,000 speakers altogether....
 language spoken by the Enets people along the lower Yenisei River
Yenisei River

Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider....
 in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. There are two distinct dialects - Forest Enets and Tundra Enets - which may be considered separate languages. There are only about seventy speakers in total, with slightly more speaking Forest Enets. Most speakers are middle-aged or older, and all speak Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 as a second language. It is closely related to Nenets
Nenets language

Nenets is a language spoken by the Nenets people in northern Russia. It belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic languages family with the Finno-Ugric languages....
, which it was formerly regarded as a dialect of, and to Nganasan
Nganasan language

Nganasan language is a language of the Nganasan people. It was spoken by 1,063 and by 750 people in the southwestern and central parts of the Taymyr Peninsula....
.

Orthography

Although an alphabet was developed for the Enets language at the end of the 1980s, it has yet to be made official. In spite of this, it has been used to produce three books, including a Russian-Enets student dictionary. Enets is written with an adapted form of the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
, incorporating the supplemental letters , and .

Forest Enets


Forest Enets is the smaller of the two Enets dialects. In the winter of 2006/2007, approximately 35 people spoke it (6 in Dudinka
Dudinka

Dudinka is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was the administrative center of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, which was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai on January 1, 2007....
, 20 in Potapova and 10 in Tukhard, the youngest of whom was born in 1962 and the oldest in 1945). Many of these speakers are trilingual, with competence in Forest Enets, Tundra Nenets
Nenets language

Nenets is a language spoken by the Nenets people in northern Russia. It belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic languages family with the Finno-Ugric languages....
 and Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, preferring to speak Tundra Nenets.

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