Forest Nenets languageForest Nenets (Neshan; endonym: нешаӈ вата, nešaŋ vata, Nenets pronunciation: [nʲeːʃ(ʲ)ɑŋ βːɑtɑ]) is a Samoyedic language spoken in northern Russia, around the Agan, Pur, Lyamin and Nadym rivers, by the Nenets people. It is closely related to the Tundra Nenets language, and the two are still sometimes seen as simply being dialects of a single Nenets language, despite there being low mutual intelligibility between the two.
Nenets languagesNenets (Nenets: ненэцяʼ вада, romanized: nyenetsya vada; in former work also Yurak) is a pair of closely related languages spoken in northern Russia by the Nenets people. They are often treated as being two dialects of the same language, but they are very different and mutual intelligibility is low.Tundra Nenets languageTundra Nenets (endonym: ненэця' вада, nenécja' vada, Nenets pronunciation:) is a Uralic language spoken in European Russia and North-Western Siberia. It is the largest and best-preserved language in the Samoyedic group. Tundra Nenets is closely related to the Nganasan and Enets language, and more distantly to Selkup.
Estonian languageEstonian (eesti keel [ˈeːsʲti ˈkeːl] ) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, and is the official language of Estonia. Estonian is written using the Latin alphabet and is the first language of the majority of the country's population; it is also an official language of the European Union. Estonian is spoken natively by about 1.1 million people: 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 elsewhere.
Finnish languageFinnic languageFinnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages.
Uralic languagesLanguage family of northern EurasiaDialectA dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardized varieties, such as those used in developing countries or isolated areas. The dialects of the same language are mainly distinguished from each other by differences in linguistic features such as phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary.
Mutual intelligibilityComparing Danish and Norwegian languagesEnglishI love eating Danish meat and drinking Norwegian water.DanishJeg elsker at spise dansk kød og drikke norsk vand.NorwegianJeg elsker å spise dansk kjøtt og drikke norsk vann.Danish and Norwegian have a long history of interaction and share vocabulary, grammatical, and orthographic features.
Kanin PeninsulaThe Kanin Peninsula (Russian: Канин) is a large peninsula in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. GeographyIt is surrounded by the White Sea to the west and by the Barents Sea to the north and east. Shoyna (also spelled Shoina) is one of the few communities on the peninsula and situated on the western side. A settlement of some 300 people in 2010, historically it had a much larger population (1,500 in the 1950s).
RussiaCountry in Eastern Europe and North AsiaRussia, or the Russian Federation, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. With a population of over 140 million, Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous in the world. It is a highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants.
NenetsThe Nenets (Nenets: ненэй ненэче, romanized: nenəj nenəče; Russian: ненцы, romanized: nentsy), in the past also called Samoyeds or Yuraks, are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to the Russian Arctic, in the Russian Far North.
Pur (Russia)The Pur (Russian: Пур) is a river in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It has a length of 389 kilometres (242 mi) —1,024 kilometres (636 mi) counting the length of the Pyakupur at its head. The area of its basin is 112,000 square kilometres (43,000 mi2). The Urengoy gas field and Gubkin gas and oil field are located in the basin of the Pur.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.