Enets

Template:Short description Template:Expand RussianTemplate:Main other Template:Main other The Enets (Template:Langx, ; singular: , ; 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 Enets lived in the village of Template:Ill 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 is almost unused in everyday life.

Genetics

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.

See also

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Distribution of Enets, early 21st century

• List of indigenous peoples of Russia

Further reading

• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire, Template:ISBN This book may be ordered from its Estonian publisher at https://web.archive.org/web/20040217225839/http://www.redbook.ee/english.html
• Colin Thubron, In Siberia, HarperCollins, 1999, hardcover, 287 pages, Template:ISBN; British editions, Chatto & Williams or Sinclair Stevenson, October, 1999, hardcover, 320 pages, Template:ISBN; trade paperback, Penguin, September, 2000, 384 pages, Template:ISBN

External links

• Article on the Enets in The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire online version