Nenets
Americannoun
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a member of a reindeer-herding Uralic people of far northern European Russia and adjacent areas of Siberia as far as the Yenisei River delta.
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the Samoyedic language of the Nenets.
Etymology
Origin of Nenets
< Russian nénets (with -ets falsely construed as the Russian suffix) < Nenets ńēnetś man, Nenets
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere, confirmed losses from indigenous groups include 201 Nenets, 96 Chukchi, 77 Khanty, 30 Koryaks and seven Inuit.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Surveys show the Nenets autonomous district, an area the size of Florida, now has four times as many trees as official inventories recorded in the 1980s.
From Science Magazine • May 19, 2022
For some coastal communities it will be “an existential threat,” the report said, adding that traditional lifestyles of the Sami and the Nenets peoples are already under threat in the European Arctic.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2022
While Covid brought travel to a halt in much of the world, the Nenets of Yamal kept moving.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021
From that congress I have the following languages translated: Karelian, Udmurt, Estonian, Komi and Nenets.
From Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible by Ilona, Martinovitsné Kutas
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