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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 language is one of the postulated Ugric languages of the Uralic family. The Mansi people were formerly known as the Voguls. [5] Together with the Khanty people, the Mansi are politically represented by the Association to Save Yugra, an organisation founded during Perestroika in the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first ...
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]
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 ...
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 that has multiple dialect continuua and is varyingly considered a language or a collection of distinct languages spoken in the Khanty-Mansi and the ...
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 ]
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. Russian remains the only official language. In 2012, the majority (51%) [ 10 ] of the oil produced in Russia came from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, giving the region great economic ...
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.