ELP ID
30637
ELP Language
Tundra Nenets
Speaker Number
10000-99999
Public Comment
"The 2010 data estimate the number of speakers of the Nenets language in the Russian Federation as 21,926 and this estimate is probably quite accurate. However, the numbers include speakers of both Tundra and Forest Nenets, since the official trend in Russia is to view them as a single language. According to unofficial estimates, there may be about 1,500 speakers of Forest Nenets, so Tundra Nenets may be currently spoken by about 20,000 people."
Source
A Grammar of Tundra Nenets
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
20,000
Speaker Number Range
10000-99999