Nganasan people

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The Nganasan people are an Indigenous Samoyedic ethnic group of the Siberian Arctic, traditionally semi-nomadic reindeer hunters and fishers living on the Taymyr Peninsula in northern Russia.

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Nganasan people canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Samoyedic people
ethnic group
administrativeRegion Krasnoyarsk Krai
autonym nganasan
citizenship Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
climateZone tundra
country Russia
culturalArea Circumpolar peoples
culturalHeritage epic songs
oral tradition
shamanic rituals
ethnographicRegion Siberian Arctic
linked to: Northern Siberia
ethnonymOrigin Samoyedic origin
historicalLanguageStatus endangered language community
indigenousTo Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

Siberia
language Nganasan language
languageFamily Samoyedic languages
Uralic languages
mainSettlementArea Dikson region
Novaya village
Ust-Avam
Volochanka
minorityStatus Indigenous minority in Russia
populationTrend declining
recognizedAs small-numbered Indigenous people of the North
region Northern Siberia
relatedEthnicGroup Enets people
linked to: Enets

Nenets people
linked to: Nenets

Selkup people
linked to: Selkup
religion Russian Orthodoxy
shamanism
subsistenceType hunter-gatherer
pastoralism
traditionalBelief animism
traditionalClothing reindeer-skin garments
traditionalEconomy fishing
hunting
reindeer herding
traditionalHousing chum
traditionalLifestyle semi-nomadic
traditionalOccupation fishing
reindeer hunting
traditionalTerritory Taymyr Peninsula
traditionalTransport reindeer sled
UNESCOStatus endangered language
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Nganasan language spokenBy Nganasan people
Samoyedic peoples hasPart Nganasan people
Tavgi language spokenBy Nganasan people
Uralic peoples hasSubgroup Nganasan people