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Nenets

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Nen·ets  (nnts)
n. pl. Nenets In both senses also called Samoyed.
1. A member of a reindeer-herding people of of extreme northwest Russia along the coast of the White, Barents, and Kara seas.
2. The Uralic language of this people.
[Nenets, human being, Nenets.]
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Noun1.Nenets - a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia
Nentsi, Nentsy, Yurak-Samoyed
Samoyedic, Samoyed - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
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Summary: MOSCOW(Cihan/RT) eI Nenets People resist to Modern life which threats their rural life.
RussiaeIUs Nomadic Reindeer Herders Resists Modern World by Cihan News Agency (CNA)
Terescenko has asserted in her monograph on Samoyedic syntax that in three Samoyedic languages, particularly clearly just in (Tundra) Nenets and Enets, partly in Selkup--contrary to the norms valid for Finno Ugric languages--the nominative of substantives indicates the definiteness of a direct object.
Use of the nominative of Samoyedic substantives as instances of ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
TRIBE: NENETS LOCATION: WEST SIBERIAN ARCTIC POPULATION: 41,000 Customs: The Nenets's way of life is based around reindeer herding and, despite the harsh conditions on the Arctic tundra, they migrate huge distances with the seasons.
THE LAST TRIBES; NATIVE PEOPLES IN REMOTE PARTS OF THE WORLD LIVE ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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