单词 | nganasan |
释义 | Nganasann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a people inhabiting the Taimyr Peninsula between the Yenisei and Khatanga rivers in north-western Siberia.Formerly called Tavgi or Samoyed (cf. Tavgi n., Samoyed n. and adj.), the Nganasan were once regarded as a part of the Nenets. ΚΠ 1941 Pacific Affairs 14 213 Unlike the Nganasans or the old men are young writers who eagerly accept the new life. 1954 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 13 339 Yuraki, Nentsy, Nganasany, Sakha, Evenki, Yakuts..numbered 7,600 on January 1, 1937. 1964 tr. M. G. Levin & L. P. Potapov Peoples of Siberia 571 The Nganasans live in the Taymyr National Okrug. They are the most northerly people of the Soviet Union. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 706/2 The number of Nganasans has remained fairly constant, and they seem to have a high degree of ethnic identity. 1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. 252/2 The Nganasan in the far north are best known for their shamanistic practices. 2. The largely unwritten Northern Samoyedic language of the Nganasan, closely related to Nenets. ΚΠ 1945 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 65 61/2 Samoyed..languages still spoken (Nenets [Yurak], Nganasan [Tavgy], Enets [Yenissey], Selkup [Ostyak-Samoyed]). 1962 Amer. Speech 37 68 Comparison of the phonemic systems of five languages of the Samoyed subgroup (Nenets, Nganasan, Enets, Sel'Kup, Kamas). 1977 P. Medov tr. M. I. Isaev National Lang. U.S.S.R. ii. 157 Nganasan and Enets are the languages of the smallest ethnic groups. There are 953 Nganasans (according to the 1970 data). 1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 769 Nganasan is taught in school to ethnic Nganasan who do not use it as mother tongue. B. adj. Designating, of, or relating to the Nganasan or their language. ΚΠ 1962 tr. B. O. Dolgikh in H. N. Michael Stud. Siberian Ethnogenesis 221 The construction of the Nganasan tent differs in a number of details from the construction of the Nenets tent. 1972 Language 48 208 ‘Yurak’ arose from a term applied to the eastern Nenets by their Enets and Nganasan neighbours. 1984 R. Wixman Peoples of U.S.S.R. 145 The Nganasan language belongs to the Samoyedic division of the Uralian branch of the Uralo-Altaic language family. 1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 769 Dolgan is a separate language, but is also used by Nganasan speakers. 1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. 254/2 Music from the Buriat, Yakut, Tungus, Nenets and Nganasan peoples of Siberia. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1941 |
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