Nganasan

See also: nganasan

English

Noun

Nganasan (plural Nganasans or Nganasan or Nganasani)

1. A member of a people who live in the extreme northwest of Siberia.

Translations

• Note: These are translations for the plural.

people

• Dolgan: һаамай (haamay)
• Finnish: nganasanit
• Hungarian: nganaszan
• Russian: нганасан (ru) (nganasan)

Proper noun

Nganasan

1. The Samoyedic language spoken by these people.

Translations

language

• Dolgan: һаамай тыла (haamay tıla)
• Esperanto: nganasana
• Finnish: nganasani (fi)
• Hungarian: nganaszan
• Russian: нганасанский (ru) (nganasanskij)

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Nganasan, nio ⁠