Abstract:e-book).Nganasan is a language of considerable interest for both Uralic studies and general linguistic typology. Spoken on Taimyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia, it is not only the easternmost surviving Uralic language, but also the northernmost language of Eurasia, and even globally second only to some varieties of Inuit. Conventionally classified as a member of the "northern" group of Samoyedic, it is more correctly understood as representing the first offshoot of Proto-Samoyedic, which started moving northward… Show more
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