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The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire (1337 words) |
 | Enets (enet'-enche) is the self-designation of this ethnic group the original meaning of which is 'a human being, a man'. |
| The maximum temperature in summer is 13 °C and the average temperature in winter is 30 °C. The Tundra Enets move in an area between the Yenisey and the Pyassina while the Wood Enets live to the north in the centre of the Dudinka territory, in wooded tundra. |
| The Enets language belongs to the northern group of the Samoyed languages, part of the Uralic family of languages. |
| BEYOND THE POINT OF NO RETURN (1325 words) |
| The serious interest shown by outsiders in the Votic language and in the collection of materials about their language has raised the status of their native language in the eyes of the Votes and postponed their linguistic assimilation. |
| Inter-marriages between the Enets and the Nganasans, Nenets, Dolgans, and Evenks were common already in the distant past, and that usually meant transition to the Nenets language. |
| The language of the Enets came under the overwhelming influence of the Russian language in the 1930s. |
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