Talk:Tundra Nenets language

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OK, guys, please stop your emerging edit war and talk about the æ for a minute, will you. I'll begin with a simple question: If æ is orthographic, why is it mentioned in the orthography section as a phoneme and with no palatalized orthographic representation (since it doesn't occur palatalized)? --JorisvS (talk) 18:30, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

I have corrected the information on <æ> in the orthographic section. I don't remember if I had forgot correcting it myself before I created the page (as I wrote the page during a couple of days) or if it is due to later contributions by other users. Firstly, I do not want an edit war. I will accept if my reasoning is wrong, but as things are now, I don't think I'm wrong. Secondly, the letter "æ" is not that of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and is therefore not /æ/ and does not represent the near-open front unrounded vowel. It is a symbol used by Tapani Salminen and in other orthographies based upon the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, and represents, in the case of Tundra Nenets, either [æ͡e̘] or [æː], in the exact same way as <dyo> represents /dʲo̙ː/. -- Llonydd (talk) 18:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

The orthography section (now) mentions a æ (in UPA) written as э, which would, as far as I know, make the э the orthographic representation of this phoneme, so <э>. Let's answer this question: Do the Tundra Nenets write æ or э when writing in their language? [which defines whether it's orthographic or not]. It seems to me that the problem was caused by the fact that there are several representations being used criss-cross, creating some confusion. It would be best to stick to the IPA as much as possible. --JorisvS (talk) 18:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

The confusion arose because 'æ' is a symbol in both the IPA and in the UPA. The Tundra Nenets themselves use the Cyrillic orthography, but the orthography based on UPA is used in literature, and should also be used here to further describe Tundra Nenets, such as its grammar, as many readers are not confident with the Cyrillic orthography. So, both <æ> and <э> are right and both represent either [æ͡e̘] or [æː], just as <i> and <ы> are the same and both represent [ɨ]. Consider a completely different language, such as the Tamil language, with its Tamil script. The language is not described through the Tamil script, as can be seen on a page such as Tamil grammar, but rather through an orthography based upon the Latin alphabet which is easily readable for the unexperienced reader. -- Llonydd (talk) 05:57, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Ideally it should be done with both, as some people may not be as comfortable with IPA. Also, dictionaries will use the Cyrillic script (e.g. this). - Francis Tyers · 18:07, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Speaker statistics

The article on Samoyedic languages gives the total number of speakers for the group as 30,000—less than the figure given here for Tundra Nenets. This needs to be sorted. I'm assuming that the round figure given for Samoyedic is out of date. Koro Neil (talk) 08:37, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Reverted vandalism

Reverted some obvious vandalism, 2022-02-01. 46.162.88.63 (talk) 22:24, 1 February 2022 (UTC)