Nenets, Khanty and Selkup:The Nenets, Khanty and Selkup language in education in the Yamal Region in Russia
Nenets, Khanty, and Selkup are the native languages of the indigenous population in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug (district, hereafter referred to as the YNAO). The district is situated in Western Siberia, on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains in the Russian Federation. The YNAO was establi...
Summary: | Nenets, Khanty, and Selkup are the native languages of the indigenous population in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous okrug (district, hereafter referred to as the YNAO). The district is situated in Western Siberia, on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains in the Russian Federation. The YNAO was established by a decision of the highest executive board in the Soviet Union Government on the 10th of December 1930. In 1977, the district’s legal status was changed to autonomous and after the collapse of the Soviet Union the YNAO became a subject of the Russian Federation. The Nenets are officially recognised as the main ethnic group in the YNAO. Next to the Nenets, the Khanty and Selkups are also officially recognised as the indigenous inhabitants of the district under the 1998 Ustav YNAO (Osnovnoi zakon) Yamalo-Nenetskogo avtonomnogo okruga (Charter of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District). |
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