Endangered Languages Project - Nganasan

Nganasan

^{[aka Tavgi Samoyed, Tavgy, Ŋanasan]}

Classification: Uralic

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severely endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tavgi Samoyed, Tavgy, Ŋanasan, Tawgy, Tavgi, нганасанский язык, тавгийский язык, tavgiysky, тавгийско-самоедский язык, tavgiysko-samoyedsky, ня”, njaʔ, Ня’’ сиәде, Nganasanin kieli, Northern Samoyed, Tawgy-Samojedisch, Nganasanisch, tavgui, ŋanasaŋ, nganasany, Tawgi, Samojeditawgi, Tawgy-Sprache,
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Samoyedic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		nio
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Khatang Avam
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)

Severely endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~1,300
CHILDREN
very few
YOUNG ADULTS
very few
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Generally, only individuals aged 40 or more are fully fluent in the language.

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: There are still a few old speakers with little knowledge of Russian, or with a knowledge of a special Russian-based Taimyr pidgin only; middle-aged and younger speakers are, however, fully bilingual in Russian, with inevitable traces of Russian interference in native language use; some knowledge of Yakut Dolgan is also common.

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: The northernmost language of the Eurasian continent; on central Taimyr, in the regions of the Pyasina and Taimyra river systems, within the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia; in two main groups (western and eastern), corresponding to a slight dialectal difference.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
834
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
500. Ethnic population: 834.

PLACES: Russia;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
505
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,060
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,278
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
In 1989, it was reported that 83.2%% of the ethnic population were native speakers, which is approximately 1,060.

DATE OF INFO: 1989

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
Scripts (Writing system): none
More on Orthography: The Nganasans have never had a written language. In 1988 N. Tereshchenko compiled the 41-letter alphabet based on Russian characters but unfortunately no data exists of its actual use.

PLACES: Russian Federation

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: The Nganasans are the northernmost of the Samoyedic peoples, living on the Taymyr Peninsula in the Arctic Ocean. Administratively, their Arctic territory is part of the Taymyr Autonomous Region of the Krasnoyarsk district (formerly the Dolgan-Nenets National District).

Severely endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~500
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Siberia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Taymyr

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press