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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nganasan people canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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