Enets
E73491
Enets are a small Indigenous Samoyedic people of northern Siberia, closely related linguistically and culturally to the Nenets, with a traditional lifestyle centered on reindeer herding, fishing, and hunting.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indigenous people
ⓘ
Samoyedic people ⓘ |
| climateOfHomeland |
arctic climate
ⓘ
subarctic climate ⓘ |
| colonialHistory | incorporated into Russian Empire expansion in Siberia ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| culturalPreservationEffort |
language documentation projects
ⓘ
local cultural organizations ⓘ |
| culturalSphere |
Arctic culture
ⓘ
Siberian Indigenous cultures ⓘ |
| culturalThreat | assimilation ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf |
Russia
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Federation
|
| ethnonymOrigin | derived from a word meaning "person" or "man" in their language ⓘ |
| historicalLanguageContact |
Nenets language
ⓘ
Nganasan language ⓘ Russian language ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Taymyr Peninsula
ⓘ
surface form:
Taimyr Peninsula
Eastern Siberia ⓘ
surface form:
northern Siberia
|
| language | Enets language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Uralic languages ⓘ |
| languageShift | shift toward Russian ⓘ |
| languageStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| mainAdministrativeRegion |
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
ⓘ
surface form:
Krasnoyarsk Krai
|
| mainSettlementArea | Dudinka district ⓘ |
| minorityStatus | numerically small Indigenous people in Russia ⓘ |
| populationTrend | declining ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East
ⓘ
surface form:
Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation
|
| relatedEthnicGroup |
Nenets
ⓘ
Nganasan ⓘ |
| religion |
Russian Orthodox Church
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Orthodox Christianity
traditional animist beliefs ⓘ |
| selfDesignation | Enets self-link ⓘ |
| socioeconomicChange | sedentarization policies during Soviet period ⓘ |
| subfamily | Samoyedic languages ⓘ |
| subsistenceType | mixed hunting-fishing-herding economy ⓘ |
| traditionalClothingMaterial | reindeer hide ⓘ |
| traditionalDwelling | chum (conical tent) ⓘ |
| traditionalEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
hunting ⓘ reindeer herding ⓘ |
| traditionalLifestyle | nomadic or semi-nomadic herding ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Arctic tundra
ⓘ
forest-tundra zone ⓘ lower Yenisei River ⓘ |
| traditionalTransport | reindeer sled ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.