Tundra Nenets

Tundra Nenets, together with Forest Nenets, forms the Nenets group of languages, which belongs to the Samoyed branch of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic) language family. Nenets was formerly known as Yurak or Yurak Samoyed, both now obsolete.

Information about the Tundra Nenets language at this site:

• a copyrighted grammatical sketch
  • an introduction to the Tundra Nenets language and community
  • chapters on phonology
  • morphology
  • very briefly, syntax
  • a bibliography
  • a short text in Tundra Nenets
• the Unesco Red Book report on Tundra Nenets

At other sites:

• Richard Ogden's research on Tundra Nenets phonetics [temporarily not available]
• Arctic Circle reports on the Nenets and the Khanty and the struggle over land and resources on the Yamal Peninsula
• Pictures from an expedition to the Nenets by Liivo Niglas [temporarily not available] at the Estonian National Museum
• Jarmo Alatalo's Tundra Nenets homepage with a map [temporarily not available]
• Jan Paakkanen's homepage on linguistics and phonetics
• Yamada Guide to Nenets among the Yamada Language Guides
• The Ethnologue includes Nenets as a single language, with Forest Yurak and Tundra Yurak (read: Forest Nenets and Tundra Nenets) as dialects, and miscalculates their numbers of speakers
• Centre for Russian Studies database: Nenets
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire by Margus Kolga, Igor Tõnurist, Lembit Vaba, and Jüri Viikberg: Nenets
• Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples of Fenno-Ugria Foundation includes The Endangered Uralic Peoples compiled by Lembit Vaba and Jüri Viikberg and edited by Andres Heinapuu: Nenets
• Minority languages of Russia on the Net by Esa Anttikoski: Nenets

© Tapani Salminen

Last updated 14 September 2003