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Enets in space and time: a case study in linguistic geography
Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen, 2018
Through a series of linguistic maps based on published ethnographic data and our fieldwork accounts, we reconstruct the territories in which Forest and Tundra Enets (Samoyedic) has been spoken from the 17 th century till today. Text accompanying the maps comments on details of migrations of the two ethnic groups and on language contact with their neighbors, including descriptions of several assimilation processes that the Enets have been involved with. The gradual language endangerment process is analyzed in its geographic dimension.
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