Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
The Mansi (Mansi: Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум, [4] Māńsi / Māńsi māhum, [ˈmaːnʲsʲi, ˈmaːnʲsʲi ˈmaːxʊm]) are an Ob-Ugric Indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages have co-official
Northern Mansi (ма̄ньси ла̄тыӈ, pronounced [maːnʲɕi laːtəŋ] ⓘ) is the sole surviving member of the Mansi languages, spoken in Russia in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Sverdlovsk Oblast. Northern Mansi has strong Russian, Komi, Nenets, and Northern Khanty influence, and is the literary Mansi language. There is no ...
Southern or Tavda Mansi is an extinct Uralic language spoken in Russia in the Sverdlovsk. It was recorded from an area isolated from the other Mansi varieties along the river Tavda. [4] Around 1900, about 200 speakers existed, but in the 1960s, it was spoken only by a few elderly speakers. [5] PIit has since then become extinct.
Two common phonetic features of the Ugric languages are a rearrangement of the Proto-Uralic (PU) system of sibilant consonants and a lenition of velar consonants: [5]. PU *s and *š merged and developed into a non-sibilant sound (possibly [θ] or []), yielding Mansi /t/, Khanty *ɬ → /t/ or /l/ (depending on dialect), and were lost in Hungarian.
Western Mansi is a language that was described as "probably extinct" in 1988. [3] Although the last speaker is not known, none existed by the end of the 20th century. [4]The language had strong Russian and Komi influences and considerable dialect differences. [5]
Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti), previously known as Ostyak (/ ˈ ɒ s t j æ k /), [4] is a Uralic language family that has multiple dialect continuua and is varyingly considered a language or a collection of distinct languages spoken in the Khanty-Mansi and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs.
The modern name of the Ugric language family, which includes Khanty and Mansi together with Hungarian, was also adopted on the assumption that the two words share a common origin. [2] However, even though the linguistic connection between the Ugric languages is well established, the etymological connection between Yugra and ugry is disputed. [3]