Uralic family
Nenets
c. 1500 CE – today Living
Nenets (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Uralic language. Lineage: Proto-Uralic → Proto-Samoyedic → Nenets.
See Nenets on the interactive map- Speakers
- 22K (22,000)
- ISO 639-3
- yrk
- Glottocode
- tund1255
Northern Samoyedic language (mainly Tundra Nenets) of the Russian Arctic tundra.
Lineage
- Proto-Uralicc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Samoyedicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
- Nenetsc. 1500 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Proto-Samoyedic.