Enets language
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| Enets Онаь базаан |
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| Spoken in: | Russia | |
| Region: | Krasnoyarsk Krai, along the lower Yenisei River | |
| Total speakers: | 70 | |
| Language family: | Uralic Samoyedic Northern Enets |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mis | |
| ISO 639-3: | either: enf — Forest Enets enh — Tundra Enets |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Enets is a Samoyedic language spoken by the Enets people along the lower Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. 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 as a second language. It is closely related to Nenets, which it was formerly regarded as a dialect of, and to Nganasan.