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Preferred term

yrkNenets  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Forest Nenets is a Samoyedic language spoken in northern Russia, around the Agan, Pur, Lyamin and Nadym rivers, by the Nenets people. 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. The next closest relatives are Nganasan and Enets, after them Selkup, and even more distantly the other Uralic languages.

Entry terms

  • Forest Nenets language

ISO 639-3 code

  • yrk

Notation

  • yrk

In other languages

  • Nénètse des forêts

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yrk

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