Enets, Tundra
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- Language: Enets, Tundra
- Alternate names: Yenisei Samoyedic, Madu, Somatu
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:enh
- Language family: Uralic, Samoyed
- Number of speakers: 30
- Script: Cyrillic script
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Introduction
Enets is a language spoken by the Enets people in northern Russia. It belongs to the Samoyedic languages which form the Uralic language family with the Finno-Ugric languages. There are two major dialects — Tundra Enets and Forest Enets — with low mutual intelligibility between the two. Tundra Enets has the larger group of speakers.
