Tavgi language
E610544
Tavgi language is an endangered Samoyedic language of the Uralic family traditionally spoken by the Nganasan people of the Siberian Arctic.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Samoyedic language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Nganasan language
ⓘ
Tavgi Samoyed NERFINISHED ⓘ Tavgi Samoyedic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arctic tundra culture
ⓘ
hunter-gatherer traditions ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Enets language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nenets language ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Nganasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCaseSystem | true ⓘ |
| hasFieldwork | documented by Soviet linguists in 20th century ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
derivational morphology for verb-noun alternations
ⓘ
extensive case marking on nouns ⓘ verbal aspect distinctions ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasVowelHarmony | true ⓘ |
| historicalWritingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | nio ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uralic language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageShiftFactor |
schooling in Russian
ⓘ
urbanization of Nganasan people ⓘ |
| moreDistantlyRelatedTo |
Finnish language
ⓘ
Hungarian language NERFINISHED ⓘ Selkup language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| morphologicalType |
agglutinative
ⓘ
suffixing ⓘ |
| nativeName | няʼ (ńaʼ) ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakersTrend | declining ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| region |
Krasnoyarsk Krai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Siberian Arctic ⓘ |
| shiftedTo | Russian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Nganasan people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Samoyedic branch ⓘ |
| subgroup | Northern Samoyedic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion | Taimyr Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| usedFor |
reindeer herding terminology
ⓘ
shamanic practices ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
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