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.
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Etymology
Origin of Nenets
< Russian nénets (with -ets falsely construed as the Russian suffix) < Nenets ńēnetś man, Nenets
Example Sentences
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At that time, local people lived by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants—a lifestyle still partially practiced by Nenets and Khanty people in the area today.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
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
In their number are thousands from the Sami, along with the Chukchi, Evenki, Eveny and Nenets in Siberia.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2020
It was a multicultural area - including members of the indigenous Nenets ethnic group - but there was also a strong far-right, Russian nationalist movement.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2019
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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