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'Nganasan language' (formerly called тавгийский, ''tavgiysky'', or тавгийско-самоедский, ''tavgiysko-samoyedsky'' in Russian; from the ethnonym тавги, ''tavgi'') is a language of the Nganasan people. It was spoken by 1,063 (1989 est.) and by 750 people (1970 est.) in the southwestern and central parts of the Taymyr Peninsula. The Nganasan language belongs to the northern Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family. There are two main dialects in the Nganasan language: the Avam dialect (авамский говор, ''avamsky govor'') and the Vadeyev dialect (вадеевский говор, ''vadeyevsky govor''). Phonetic features of the Nganasan language include eighteen vowel and twenty consonant phonemes and an abundance of diphthongs.
The Cyrillic-based writing system was invented in the 1990s:

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё	Ж ж
З з		И и	Й й	’’	К к	Л л	М м
Н н		О о	Ө ө	П п	Р р	С с	Ç ç
Т т	У у	Ү ү	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш
Щ щ	Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ә ә	Ю ю	Я я

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External links

External links

★ Ethnologue report for Nganasan

★ Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: The Nganasan Language

★ The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire: The Nganasans

★ Comparative Nenets-Nganasan dictionary (with Russian and English equivalents)

★ Nganasan multimedia dictionary

★ Nganasan-English glossary

★ German-Nganasan glossary