ISO 639-3 · yrkyrk
Uralic family
Nenets
Nenets is a language of the Enets-Nenets branch (Uralic), spoken in Russia. Wikidata counts about 21,926 speakers (2010). Wikidata describes it as “Samoyedic pair of languages by the Nenets people in Russia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
yrk- Glottocode
nene1251- Family
- Uralic
- EGIDS
- 6b Threatened
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 69 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
6bEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Nenets |
|---|---|
| Also called | Yurak, yrk, Nenets languages, Yurak languages |
| All speakers | 21,926 (2010) |
| Written in | Cyrillic, Nenets alphabet |
Vitality
EGIDS 6b Threatened6b
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Uralic to Nenets
The branches above Nenets, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Russia
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