The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: YRK
ISO 639-2: mis
| Population | 26,300 mother tongue speakers out of an ethnic population of 27,000 (1994 Salminen). 1,300 Forest Nenets speakers out of 2,000; 25,000 Tundra Nenets. |
| Region | Northwest Siberia, tundra area from the mouth of the northern Dvina River in northeastern Europe to the delta of the Yenisei in Asia, and a scattering on the Kola Peninsula; Nenets, Yamalo-Nenets, and Taimyr national okrugs. |
| Alternate names | NENEC, NENTSE, NENETSY, YURAK, YURAK SAMOYED |
| Dialects | FOREST YURAK, TUNDRA YURAK. |
| Classification | Uralic, Samoyedic, Northern Samoyedic. |
| Comments | Bilingualism in Russian. 80% use Nenets in daily life. Speakers are mainly nomadic. Reindeer herdsmen. Christian, traditional religion. |
