Editing Enets language (section)

{{Short description|Moribund Samoyedic language spoken by Enets people}}
{{distinguish|Nenets languages}}{{Split portions|date=August 2024|Forest Enets language|Tundra Enets language}}{{Infobox language
| name             = Enets
| nativename       = {{lang|mul|Онэй база}} {{tlit|mul|Onei baza}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Сорокина |first1=И. П. |last2=Болина |first2=Д. С. |year=2001 |title=Словарь энецко-русский и русско-энецкий |trans-title=Enets-Russian and Russian-Enets dictionary |location=[[Saint Petersburg|Санкт-Петербург]] |publisher=Филиал издательства «Просвещение» |page=310 |isbn=5-09-002526-6}}</ref>
| states           = [[Russia]]
| region           = [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], along the lower [[Yenisei River]]
| ethnicity        = 260 [[Enets people]] (2010 census)
| speakers         = 69
| date             = 2020 census, Russia
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite web |title=Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Таблица 6. Население по родному языку. |trans-title=Results of the All-Russian population census 2020. Table 6. population according to native language. |url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=rosstat.gov.ru |archive-date=2020-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124160257/http://rosstat.gov.ru/vpn_popul |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| familycolor      = Uralic
| fam2             = [[Samoyedic languages|Samoyedic]]
| fam3             = (core)
| fam4             = Enets–[[Nenets languages|Nenets]]
| lc1              = enf
| ld1              = Forest Enets
| lc2              = enh
| ld2              = Tundra Enets
| glotto           = enet1250
| glottorefname    = Enets
| map              = Enets_current.png
| mapcaption       = Current distribution of Enets languages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rantanen |first1=Timo |last2=Tolvanen |first2=Harri |last3=Roose |first3=Meeli |last4=Ylikoski |first4=Jussi |last5=Vesakoski |first5=Outi |date=2022-06-08 |title=Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=17 |issue=6 |pages=e0269648 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0269648|doi-access=free |pmid=35675367 |pmc=9176854 |bibcode=2022PLoSO..1769648R }}</ref><ref>Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). ''Geographical database of the Uralic languages'' (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188</ref>
| map2             = Lang Status 20-CR.svg
| mapcaption2      = {{center|{{small|Forest Enets is classified as Critically Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}
| speakers2        = 18 (2001, Ukraine)
}}

'''Enets''' is a [[Samoyedic languages|Samoyedic language]] of Northern Siberia spoken on the Lower [[Yenisei]] within the boundaries of the [[Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District|Taimyr]] Municipality District, a subdivision of [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], [[Russia|Russian Federation]].  Enets belongs to the Northern branch of the [[Samoyedic languages]], in turn a branch of the [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] language family.<ref>Siegl, F. (2013). ''Materials on Forest Enets, an indigenous language of Northern Siberia''. Tartu. doi:978-9949-19-673-9, http://dspace.ut.ee/handle/10062/17439?locale-attribute=en</ref>