name
Meaning 1
The Samoyedic language spoken by these people.
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Standard Lemma guide
Nganasan
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noun
Meaning 2
A member of a people who live in the extreme northwest of Siberia.
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noun
Meaning 3
the Uralic language spoken by the Nganasan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Samoyedic, Samoyed
noun
Meaning 4
a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia
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Broader terms: Russian
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Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dolgan: һаамай тыла (haamay tıla) — language
- Esperanto: nganasana — language
- Finnish: nganasani — language
- Hungarian: nganaszan — language
- Russian: нганасанский (nganasanskij) — language
- Dolgan: һаамай (haamay) — people
- Finnish: nganasanit — people
- Hungarian: nganaszan — people
- Russian: нганасан (nganasan) — people