Nganasan language

Spoken in

• Uralic Samoyed Nordsamojedisch Nganasan

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The nganasanische language is one of the Samoyed languages. These form the Uralic language family, together with the Finno -Ugric languages.

Language

Nganasan is spoken by the people of Nganasans in the center and south west of the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. It belongs to the group of Nenets and Enzisch nordsamojedischen languages.

After a ( contested) Counting 1989 1,063 people were talking Nganasan as their mother tongue. The number of Nganasans tends according to the last census from 2002 to less than 900 of which 83% of respondents Nganasan name as their mother tongue. It is feared that the language will die out in the not too distant future.

There is no written language for the Nganasanische. Nganasan one of the few local languages ​​of the Soviet Union, which have received no alphabet in the 1930s. In the early 1990s there were attempts of transcription in Cyrillic letters, which is not used in practice. The phonetic system includes eight vowels, two so-called Diphthongoide ( with the valence of diphthongs: / ia / and / ua / ), probably no diphthongs ( but vocal sequences ) and about twenty consonants. Central elements are the palatalization and the stage change. The language has many similarities with the Selkupischen and Jukagirischen.

Dialects

Naganasanisch is divided into two dialects:

• Awamisch (Russian авамский говор )
• Wadeisch (Russian вадеевский говор )