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The Mansi (Mansi: Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум, [4] ... Folk culture. A notable part of the traditional Mansi religion is the bear cult.
These beliefs were retained by the Khanty and Mansi people, even though they became, or were compelled to become Russian Orthodox Christians in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the Khanty epics, the menk are presented as "formidable forest spirits". The Hero-Prince typically inflicts many "pseudo-deaths" on a menk until he is able to inflict a ...
Khanty family standing in front of a chum, their traditional tent Most Khanty people live in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug in western Siberia The Khanty ( Khanty : ханти , romanized: hanti ), also known in older literature as Ostyaks ( Russian : остяки ), are a Ugric Indigenous people , living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug ...
Khanty and Mansi languages at the beginning of the 20th century [2] [3] Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti ), previously known as Ostyak ( / ˈ ɒ s t j æ k / ), [ 4 ] is a Uralic language family composed of multiple dialect continuua , varyingly considered a language or a collection of distinct languages, spoken in the Khanty-Mansi and ...
The peoples native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob-Ugric peoples, but today the two groups only constitute 2.5% of the region's population. The local languages, Khanty and Mansi, are part of the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric language family, and enjoy a special status in the autonomous okrug.
The Khutang (literally translated to "swan", also called Ostyak harp, Kiotang, Sotang, [1] Shotang [2]) [3] is a type of harp played by the Khanty and Mansi people of Siberia. The Khutang and the Nares-jux lyre are the only two indigenous string instruments of Northern Siberia. The Khutang is bow-shaped and often surmounted by a carven animal ...
The Mansi languages are spoken by the Mansi people in Russia along the Ob River and its tributaries, in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Sverdlovsk Oblast. Traditionally considered a single language, they constitute a branch of the Uralic languages , often considered most closely related to neighbouring Khanty and then to Hungarian .
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