Forest Enets

Leonid Bolin

Lexical glosses for Forest Enets (English)

An index of the English translations of Forest Enets lexical words found in the transcribed texts.

Lexical words in Forest Enets

An index of the Forest Enets lexical words found in the transcribed texts.

Life in tundra

A Forest Enets speaker describes his past life in the Tundra as a reindeer herder and fisherman.

Life in tundra

In this second recording on life in the Tundra, an Enets man explains how to get good white fish during the night.

The light reindeer from the north

A very short monologue on wild reindeer from the north and their unique light colours.

A little chat from the 60’s (2)

An everyday conversation between two Forest Enets speakers.

Little dog

A short story in which a Forest Enets speaker recalls the day he accidentally shot his dog dead.

Little lake

A little chat about a lake and a duck during a boat trip.

Little red riding hood

A young woman tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood in Enets.

Little river near Fokino lake

A very brief exchange in which a Forest Enets speaker discusses a little river near the Fokina lake.

Lost meat

A very short story about the perils of moving camps.

Lyubov Bolina

A man and the one-legged woman

A folktale about a man’s love for a beautiful girl who belongs to the underground one-legged tribe.

The man who wanted to speak

A true account of a trip to the other side of a nearby lake.

The mark to find the fishing nets

An Enets speaker explains his trick to find fishing nets in the snow.

Mice and Gena

A Forest Enets speaker tells the amusing tale of a little mouse paying his friend a visit during a camping trip.

The migration of reindeer

An Enets man explains how rich green grass and mosquitos govern the migration of reindeer.

Mosquito larvae

A Forest Enets speaker recalls his friendâs quirky experiment with mosquito larva.

Mosquitos

A Enets man discusses the adversity of life in the Tundra and the important role of mosquitos on the Tundra fauna.

Mosquitos and midges

A short chat with a Forest Enets speaker about the seasons of mosquitos and midges, and the effect on reindeer migrat

Mosquitos species

A ten second audio clip about the winter (aka snow or birchwood) mosquito

Mother’s idol

A Forest Enets man talks about idols and describes his grandmother and mother’s idol.

The mouse and the reindeer

A little Enets tale about a mouse who wants to go to the Tundra on a reindeer.

Moving camps in the past

An account narrating an attack by a bear and his cubs on a group of Enets women and their children moving camps.

Moving fishing net

A twenty second exchange about moving fishing nets.

Mushrooms and berries

A man explains who collects mushrooms and berries and where.

Mushrooms and berries in the tundra

A woman tells a story about berries, mushrooms and herbs in the tundra.

The musk-rat

A funny tale about two Forest Enets men finding a musk-rat in their fishing net during a trip to the Tundra.

My child ran after a bear

A Forest Enets remembers the night when his nimble two-year old daughter chased after a bear.

My father

This short narrative in which a Forest Enets man discusses the relations between his father and the soviet army befor

My forefather and his bear cubs

A tale about one of the speakers forefathers who found bear cubs in the forest and raised them as his pets.

My mother’s sister

Now old herself, a Forest Enets remembers how she used to tease her motherâs sister, calling her an old woman.

My Tundra wish

An Enets speaker tells of his wish to travel to the Tundra.

My wedding

A Forest Enets woman tells the story of her life from marriage to parenthood.

Nadezhda Bolina

Nataliya Bolina

Natalya Muravskaya

Necrobacteriosis

An Enets man tells of an old superstition and remembers a reindeer calf suffering from necrobacteriosis.

Nganasans

A short conversation between Enets speakers about the Nganasans people, old enemies of their people.

Nicknames

An Enets speaker discusses the nicknames given to his family and acquaintances and tells related amusing anecdotes.

Nikolay Lyrmin

Nikolay Palchin

Nikolay Silkin

Nikolskoe road

A short recording of an Enets speaker discusses an obsolete road on which people used to travel by reindeer.

Nina Bolina

Nina Borisova

Nina Chardu

The old man and his thirty reindeer

A moving narrative about an old Evenki man and his thirty reindeer.

The old man and the living pike

An old story about a crazy old man and his living pike.

The old woman and her dogs

A very brief narrative about an unlucky woman and her misadventures with her dogs.

The old woman Ulyana

An Enets woman remembers an older Enets woman named Ulyana.

The one legged woman

A tale of two reindeer herder brothers whose animals are attacked by a ghost-like one-legged woman.

The orphan and the old man

An Enets speaker recalls a tale that her father used to tell when she was a little girl.

Our idol

An Enets speaker tells of a stone near the review Dudinka used by his people as an idol.

People pulled the trap apart

A very brief audio recording of an Enets speaker telling of the disappearance of an old trap.

Petr Bolin

Pokolka lake

An Enets speaker recalls an encounter with two ghosts near the lake Pokolka

Polar fox

In this short story, an Enets man remembers a snowy day when a polar fox stole two partridges from his trap.

Polar fox and fox steps

A very brief story in which an Enets speaker tells of a polar fox and the traces it left behind in the snow.Â