Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Nenets

SOURCE

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Russian Federation

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Nenets
Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

27,273

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Northern Russia including Nenets and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Komi Republic and the eastern parts of Murmansk Oblast on the Kola peninsula.

BACKGROUND

Nenets belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic language family with the Finno-Ugric languages. 

There are two major dialects

  • Tundra Nenets
  • Forest Nenets  

There is a low mutual intelligibility between the two. Tundra Nenets has the larger group of speakers.