Tavgi language

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Tavgi language is an endangered Samoyedic language of the Uralic family traditionally spoken by the Nganasan people of the Siberian Arctic.

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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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Nganasan language hasAlternativeName Tavgi language