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
Dialects & Varieties
- Khatang
- Avam
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~500
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
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Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
very few
Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~1,300
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
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.
Location and Context
Countries
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.
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Taimyr, Yakut Dolgan
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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Recent Resources
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Nganasan
The collection of links containing texts written in Nganasan.
Luke Gospel in Nganasan in pdf format.