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The Yenisey [8] (/ ˌ j ɛ n ɪ ˈ s eɪ / YEN-iss-AY; Russian: Енисе́й, pronounced [jɪnʲɪˈsʲej]) [a] is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.
Despite this, Yeniseian languages played a significant role in Chinese, Mongolian, and Central Asian history. Both the ruling elite of the Xiongnu and that of the Later Zhao dynasty appear to have spoken, at least partially, Yeniseic. It has been suggested that the part of the Xiongnu underwent a linguistic shift from Yeniseian to Turkic.
The Yenisei Inscriptions are a series of Old Turkic inscriptions from the 8th-10th century CE, found near Yenisei Kyrgyz kurgans located in the Upper and Middle basins of the Yenisei River in modern-day Russia in Khakassia, Tuva and the Altai Republic.
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The Great Yenisey (Russian: Большой Енисей Bolshoy Yenisey; Tuvan: Бии-Хем, romanized: Pî-Xem) is a river in the Republic of Tuva, the right source of the Yenisey, at its confluence with the Little Yenisey. [1] The name Bii-Khem in Tuvan means "big river".
Yeniseysk was founded in 1619 as a stockaded town—the first town on the Yenisei River. [2] It played an important role in Russian colonization of East Siberia in the 17th–18th centuries.
The Enets (Russian: энцы, entsy; singular: энец, enets; also known as Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei or Yenisey Samoyeds) are a Samoyedic ethnic group who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River. Historically they were nomadic people.
Map of Yeniseian languages. The Yeniseian languages (/ ˌ j ɛ n ɪ ˈ s eɪ ə n / YEN-ih-SAY-ən; sometimes known as Yeniseic, Yeniseyan, or Yenisei-Ostyak; [notes 2] occasionally spelled with -ss-) are a family of languages that are spoken by the Yeniseian people in the Yenisei River region of central Siberia.