• Endangered

  60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 1,500

  Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

A few children learn the language, but many shift to Russian at school age.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Russian

PLACES

Siberia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Spoken in Pur County and the southern parts of Nadym county in Yamal Nenets Autonomous District and the adjacent parts of Nizhnevartovsk, Surgut and Beloyarskiy counties in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District in the Russian Federation.