Nentsy

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Nentsy - a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed of northern Siberia

Nenets, Nentsi, Yurak-Samoyed

Samoyedic, Samoyed - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia

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