Forest Enets
[aka Bai Enets, Pe-Bae, лесной энецкий]Classification: Uralic
·severely endangered
Classification: Uralic
·severely endangered
Bai Enets, Pe-Bae, лесной энецкий, Yenisei Samoyed, онаь базаан, ona' bazaan, enetj, enets, Yenisey, пэ-бай, Jenissei-Dialekt, Baicha-Dialekt, Jenisei, Enets, Jenisej-Samojedisch, Enzisch, Yenisey Samoyedic, iénisséi, enete, èncy, Yensisei-Samoyed, Yenisei Samoyedic, Yenisei Somoyed, Enec, Yenets, Yenisey-Samoyedic, Eńeć, Samojedi, Samojedimanzela, enyec nyelv, enetsin kieli, |
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Information from: “Materials on Forest Enets, an indigenous language of Northern SIberia” . Florian Siegl (2011) Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
~160 (includes Tundra Enets)
<30
"The language is functionally extinct. Around 10 fluent speakers are left; the overall number of potential speakers is less than 40 individuals. All speakers are found in the generations of 50 years and older. The number of ethnic Forest Enets is currently unknown. Recent local statistics, which also include Tundra Enets indicate that there are around 160 individuals."
Russian
"...on the Lower Yenisei within the boundaries of the Taimyr (Dolgan-Nenets) Municipality District"
Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)
Russian
Tundra Enets
The last speakers are mainly trilingual, speaking also Russian and Tundra Nenets; interference from the latter two languages tends to influence what is left of native language skills in Forest Enets.
in the forest zone on the lower Yenisei, within the Dudinka raion of the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia; historically, the speakers of the idiom have gradually moved towards the north along the Yenisei basin; this movement has during the last 150 years involved a distance of approx. 500 kms
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
198
Of the 20 speakers, 15 are in Potapovo. Ethnic population: 198 with Tundra Enets (2002 census).