Nganasan is a language spoken by the Nganasan people, who live on Taymyr Peninsula in Russia.
- According to UNESCO, there are 505 speakers of Nganasan.
Nganasan belongs to the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic language family.
- Other Samoyedic language include Enets, Nenets, the Selkup languages, Kamassian and Mator.
- More well known Uralic languages include Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian.
Some key aspects of Nganasan grammar:
- Nganasan has three grammatical numbers: singular, dual and plural.
- Nganasan has personal, demonstrative, interrogative, negative and determinative pronouns.
- Nganasan verbs are conjugation according to grammatical person and number.
Here is the Nganasan alphabet, which uses a variation of Cyrillic script:
Here is a song in the Nganasan language:
For more resources for the language, visit this page.
References
- Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing. Online version: http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nganasan_language
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