Everything about Enets Language totally explained
Enets is a
Samoyedic language spoken by the
Enets people along the lower
Yenisei River in
Krasnoyarsk Krai,
Russia. There are two distinct dialects - Forest Enets and Tundra Enets - which may be considered separate languages. There are only about seventy speakers in total, with slightly more speaking Forest Enets. Most speakers are middle-aged or older, and all speak
Russian as a second language. It is closely related to
Nenets, which it was formerly regarded as a dialect of, and to
Nganasan.
Orthography
Although an alphabet was developed for the Enets language at the end of the 1980s, it has yet to be made official. In spite of this, it has been used to produce three books, including a Russian-Enets student dictionary. Enets is written with an adapted form of the
Cyrillic alphabet, incorporating the supplemental letters ԑ, ӈ and ҫ.
| А а |
Б б |
В в |
Г г |
Д д |
Е е |
Ё ё |
Ԑ ԑ |
| Ж ж |
З з |
И и |
Й й |
К к |
Л л |
М м |
Н н |
| Ӈ ӈ |
О о |
П п |
Р р |
С с |
Ҫ ҫ |
Т т |
У у |
| Ф ф |
Х х |
Ц ц |
Ч ч |
Ш ш |
Щ щ |
ъ |
Ы ы |
| ь |
Э э |
Ю ю |
Я я |
Forest Enets
Forest Enets is the smaller of the two Enets dialects. In the winter of
2006/
2007, approximately 35 people spoke it (6 in
Dudinka, 20 in
Potapova and 10 in
Tukhard, the youngest of whom was born in
1962 and the oldest in
1945). Many of these speakers are trilingual, with competence in Forest Enets,
Tundra Nenets and
Russian, preferring to speak Tundra Nenets.
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