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Enets

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Not to be confused with Nenets people.
Enets
энцы
Enets people trading fish near Yeniseisk, 1913
Total population
c. 260
Regions with significant populations
Russia Russia 227  (2010)[1]
 Ukraine26  (2001)[2]
Languages
Enets
Related ethnic groups
Other Samoyedic peoples

The Enets (Russian: энцы, entsy; singular: энец, enets; also known as Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei or Yenisey Samoyeds) are a Samoyedic ethnic group who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River. Historically they were nomadic people. As of 2002, most enetses lived in the village of Potapovo [ru] in Krasnoyarsk Krai in western Siberia near the Arctic Circle. According to the 2010 Census, there are 227 Enets in Russia. In Ukraine, there were 26 Entsi in 2001, of whom 18 were capable of speaking the Enets language.

The Enets language is a Samoyedic language, formerly known as Yenisei Samoyedic (not to be confused with the Yeniseian language family, which is completely unrelated). Older generation still speaks their language, but education is in Russian and very little of Enets language is taught and the language us almost unused in everyday life.[3]

Genetics

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In a 2002 study, eight of the nine Enets samples belonged to the Y-DNA haplogroup N, which is typical among Uralic peoples. Seven of them had its subclade N1b-P43 and one belonged to the subclade N1c. Haplogroup R1b was found in one sample.[4]

See also

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Distribution of Enets, early 21st century

References

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  1. ^ Всероссийская перепись населения 2010. Национальный состав населения РФ 2010
  2. ^ "Всеукраїнський перепис населення 2001. Русская версия. Результаты. Национальность и родной язык". Archived from the original on 2011-09-10.
  3. ^ Как заговорить по-энецки? (retrieved July 24, 2024)
  4. ^ Tambets, Kristiina; Yunusbayev, Bayazit; Hudjashov, Georgi; Ilumäe, Anne-Mai; Rootsi, Siiri; Honkola, Terhi; Vesakoski, Outi; Atkinson, Quentin; Skoglund, Pontus; Kushniarevich, Alena; Litvinov, Sergey; Reidla, Maere; Metspalu, Ene; Saag, Lehti; Rantanen, Timo (2018). "Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations". Genome Biology. 19 (1): 139. doi:10.1186/s13059-018-1522-1. ISSN 1474-760X. PMC 6151024. PMID 30241495.

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