[quantify] The next closest relatives are Nganasan and Enets, after them Selkup, and even more distantly the other Uralic languages.

/æː/ and its unstressed counterpart only occur in non-palatal syllables and may be realized as a diphthong [ae] or [aɛ].

This reduced vowel was thought to have had two distinct qualities depending on whether or not it was subject to stress in the word or not.

The palatalized alveolars /tʲ/, /sʲ/ are typically realized as alveolo-palatals [tɕ], [ɕ].

Nenets is written with an adapted form of Cyrillic, incorporating the supplemental letters Ӈ, ʼ, and ˮ. а бе ве ге де е ё же зе и ка ел ем ен еӈ о пе ер ес те у еф ха це че ша ща ъ ы ь э ю я