nenets in English

noun

1

a member of a nomadic people of Siberia, whose main traditional occupation is reindeer herding.

Reindeer herding among the northern Nentsy includes the year-round pasturing of reindeer under the supervision of herders and the use of herd dogs and reindeer-drawn sleighs.

2

the Samoyedic language of the Nenets.

Use "nenets" in a sentence

1. Forest Nenets is a Samoyedic language spoken in northern Russia, around the Agan, Pur, Lyamin and Nadym rivers, by the Nenets people.

2. A [ Nenets ] herder relies on the instincts of his lead reindeer.

3. Nenets and Khanty reindeer herders hold about half a million domestic reindeer.

4. The Arkhangelsk region also has administrative jurisdiction over the Nenets Autonomous District (NAO)

5. There wasn't enough pasture, " Jakov Japtik, a Nenets reindeer herder, told the Guardian.

6. Reindeer, also called caribou, are everything to the Nenets: their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, even their sense of identity.

7. 28 Nobody expects any of the billions of dollars generated by Yamal's stupendous gas reserves to go to the Nenets.

8. Originally home to the Nenets people, the island was largely evacuated in the 1950s to make way for nuclear weapons testing.

9. [179] Boacoj estis gregigitaj dum jarcentoj fare de pluraj arktaj kaj Subarktaj homoj inkluzive de la sameoj kaj la Nenets

10. Nenets boys play at lassoing each other—a game that may help them hone the skill for herding reindeer strays a few years hence.

11. Arkhangelsk, oblast (province), Russia, along the northern coast of European Russia, from the Gulf of Onega to the Yugorsky Peninsula.Centred in Arkhangelsk city, it encompasses the Nenets autonomous okrug (district) in the east and a number of islands, including the Solovets, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land archipelagoes