The Arctic, northern Europe and Russia
Nenets
Lands
Tundra and forest-tundra from the Kola Peninsula to the Yenisei River, including the Nenets and Yamal-Nenets autonomous okrugs and Taimyr, Russia
Countries Russian Federation
Facts 3
Today
In Yamal, a regional grant helps young Nenets, Khanty and other Indigenous nomadic families with three or more children equip a chum shelter. By 2024, 268 families had received it.
As of 2024 Source: Fenno-Ugria Foundation, Young indigenous families supported by chum capital (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Language
Nenets belongs to the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic languages and has two main dialects, Tundra and Forest.
Source: The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (Institute of the Estonian Language archive), The Nenets (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Today
Nenets reindeer herders are regarded today as the most mobile nomads in the world, with large-herd reindeer herding at the heart of the tundra economy.
Source: RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Ненцы (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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