At 09:05 7/31/2001 -0500, Hohberger, Clive wrote:
>Tundra Nenets, together with Forest Nenets, forms the Nenets group of
>languages, which belongs to the Samoyed branch of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic)
>language family. Nenets was formerly known as Yurak or Yurak Samoyed, both
>now obsolete.
Last year, or perhaps 1999, I was approached by a Finnish academic who was
working with a poet/publisher in Russia who wanted a font for printing
Forest Nenets. Nothing ever came of the project, but I did record that the
orthography being used for Forest Nenets was slightly different from that
used for Tundra Nenets. One letter in the Forest Nenets orthography -- EL
with spike -- was not encoded in Unicode last I checked, but I was never
able to get a clear understanding of whether this orthography was invented
by the publisher, who was very keen to encourage develop Forest Nenets as a
literary language distinct from Tundra Nenets, or if it had an established
user community.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are sheep in the field. 'I know what they are,' she says,
'but I don't know what they are called.' Thus Wittgenstein is
routed by my mother. (Alan Bennett, Diaries 1983)
