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Name: Nenets
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Jurakisch; Jurak; Yurak; Yurak Samoyed; hasawa; samojadj; Northern Samoyed; nenets; Juraksamojedisch; Nenzisch; Yurak Samoyedic; yourak; nenec; nency; Nenetsy; Nentse; Nenec; Ńeńeć; Samojedi; Samojedimanzela
Spoken in: Russia
Number of speakers: 31,300. Ethnic population: 41,302 including both Forest Nenets and Tundra Nenets (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 31500 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 26730 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: yrk
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Uralic (Proto-Uralic, Langue Ouraliennes, Finno-Ugrian and Samoyed)
Parent Subgroup: Samoyed; Samoyedic; Samojedische Sprachen; Samoyede; samojedische Sprachen; samojedische Sprachfamilie; Samoyed languages; samoyède; Proto-Samoyedic; Samodic; III. Classe; Samojedische Cl[a]sse (smoy)
Child Dialects: Tundra Yurak; Tundra Nenets; Dialekt der Tundrajuraken; Tundra dialect group; Bol'shezemel'sk Nenets dialect; Tundra (yrk-tun) Forest Yurak; Forest dialect; Nenets (Tundra); Forest Nenets; haasawa; Dialekt der Waldjuraken; Forest dialect group; Forest (yrk-for)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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