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ALSO KNOWN AS		Tundra Yurak, Bol'shezemel'sk Nenets, tundranenetsi, тундровый ненецкий язык, nyenetsya' vada, Dialekt der Tundrajuraken, ненэцяʼ вада, нешанский язык, нещанский язык
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Samoyedic
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		yrk-tun
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Information from: “A Grammar of Tundra Nenets” . Nikolaeva, Irina (2014) Mouton de Gruyter

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"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."

DOMAINS OF USE
SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Nenets District of the Arkhangelsk Province, Yamal-Nenets District of the Tyumen Province, Taimyr District of the Krasnoyarsk Region, and parts of the Komi Republic,

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
25,000
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Arctic Russia, northwestern Siberia

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~25,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1989

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

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In Siberia, many children learn the language, but often shift to Russian at school age, yet most young people are still fluent in the language. On the European side, very few children learn the language, young people tend to prefer Russian, and most speakers there are middle-aged or older.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Russian

PLACES: Siberia and northern Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in northwestern Siberia across a vast area in the Russian Federation, covering Yamal, Nadym and Taz counties and the northern parts of Ural (Priural’skiy) County in Yamal Nenets Autonomous District as well as most parts of Ust’-Yeniseysk County in Taymyr (Dolgan and Nenets) Autonomous District, and in the northernmost parts of European Russia including Nenets Autonomous District, the Kolguyev Island, the northern parts of Mezen County and formerly the Novaya Zemlya Islands in Arkhangel’sk Province, as well as Vorkuta Territory and at least formerly the northern parts of Inta Territory and Usinsk, Ust’-Tsil’ma and Izhma counties in the Komi Republic.

PLACES: Russia

			Tundra Yurak dialect of Nenets						The Linguist List	http://multitree.org/codes/yrk-tun.html		"Tundra Yurak Dialect of Nenets." Online: http://multitree.org/codes/yrk-tun.html.												Russia		67.033163,71.176756
		2003	Tundra Nenets Grammar - HRELP Abstract							http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=32	Tapani Salminen	Salminen, Tapani. 2003. ""Tundra Nenets Grammar" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=32.		25,000		10000-99999			Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					Arctic Russia, northwestern Siberia
		2007	Europe and North Asia	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	211-282	C. Moseley	London & New York: Routledge				Tapani Salminen	Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD	~25,000	1989	10000-99999		Russian	Threatened (100 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11	In Siberia, many children learn the language, but often shift to Russian at school age, yet most young people are still fluent in the language. On the European side, very few children learn the language, young people tend to prefer Russian, and most speakers there are middle-aged or older.	13	11	Siberia and northern Russia	Spoken in northwestern Siberia across a vast area in the Russian Federation, covering Yamal, Nadym and Taz counties and the northern parts of Ural (Priural’skiy) County in Yamal Nenets Autonomous District as well as most parts of Ust’-Yeniseysk County in Taymyr (Dolgan and Nenets) Autonomous District, and in the northernmost parts of European Russia including Nenets Autonomous District, the Kolguyev Island, the northern parts of Mezen County and formerly the Novaya Zemlya Islands in Arkhangel’sk Province, as well as Vorkuta Territory and at least formerly the northern parts of Inta Territory and Usinsk, Ust’-Tsil’ma and Izhma counties in the Komi Republic.
Mouton Grammar Library	65	2014	A Grammar of Tundra Nenets				Mouton de Gruyter	Berlin			Nikolaeva, Irina			20,000		10000-99999	"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."	Russian	Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			13	13	Russia	Nenets District of the Arkhangelsk Province, Yamal-Nenets District of the Tyumen Province, Taimyr District of the Krasnoyarsk Region, and parts of the Komi Republic,

Tundra Nenets

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

20,000

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

25,000

Threatened

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~25,000

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