Forest Nenets language
| Forest Nenets | |
|---|---|
| Neshan, Forest Yurak | |
| нешаӈ вата, nešaŋ vata | |
| Pronunciation | [nʲeːʃ(ʲ)ɑŋ βːɑtɑ] |
| Native to | Northern Russia |
| Region | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug |
| Ethnicity | Forest Nenets |
Native speakers | (1,500 cited 1989) (5% of Nenets speakers) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | fore1274 |
| ELP | Forest Nenets |
Distribution of Nenets languages in the 21st century. | |
Forest Nenets is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Forest Nenets (Neshan) is a Samoyedic language spoken in northern Russia, around the Agan, Pur, Lyamin and Nadym rivers, by the Nenets people. It is closely related to the Tundra Nenets language, and the two are still sometimes seen as simply being dialects of a single Nenets language, despite there being low mutual intelligibility between the two. The next closest relatives are Nganasan and Enets, after them Selkup.