In some words, Forest Enets /s/ corresponds to Tundra Enets /ɟ/ (from Proto-Samoyedic *ms, *ns, *rs and *rkʲ). Forest mese — Tundra meɟe 'wind' (from *merse < *märkʲä); Forest osa — Tundra uɟa 'meat' (from *ʊnsa < *əmså);

Forest Enets (also called Bay, Pe-bay, or Karasino Yenissey Samoyed) is one of the two varieties of Enets, a Northern Samoyedic Uralic language, traditionally spoken in the northern part of central Siberia, in the Taymyr municipal region of Russia.

Enets is a Samoyedic language spoken along the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia in the Russian Federation. The two dialects of Enets - Forest Enets (Bai) and Tundra Enets (Madu / Somatu) - with considerable lexical differences between them.

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Enets (119 speakers) – a disappearing language in North Siberia’s Taimyr Autonomous Region at the Yenisei River, with two main dialects: Forest Enets and Tundra Enets, which are usually considered separate languages.

Tundra and Forest Enets, indigenous languages spoken on the Taimyr Peninsula in Northern Siberia by several dozen elderly multilingual individuals, are the smallest Samoyedic languages and severely endangered.

Enets is a highly endangered Northern Samoyedic (Ura-lic) language spoken in the Tajmyr peninsula in the north of Siberia, Russia. There are two dialects of Enets – Forest Enets (also known as Baj, Pe-Baj) and Tundra Enets (also known as Somatu); they are mutually intelligible, but have a number of clear distinctions in

Sometimes they hardly perceive themselves as a single ethnic group: forest Enets consider tundra Enets Nganasans, and tundra Enets consider forest ones – Nenets. Enets language is agglutinative, suffixal (with no prefixes).

The last speakers are mainly trilingual, speaking also Russian and Tundra Nenets; interference from the latter two languages tends to influence what is left of native language skills in Forest Enets. Critically Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Forest Enets is an endangered indigenous language of the Russian Federation. It belongs to the Uralic language family. The language is used as a first language by older adults only. It is not known to be taught in schools.