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Mansi folklore also includes mythical and heroic stories and fate songs, which are biographical poems. [13] An example of the traditional material culture of Ob-Ugric peoples is ornamenting leather clothing and birch bark objects with mosaics. [13]
Popular culture [ edit ] According to skeptical investigator Benjamin Radford , a 2014 Discovery Channel program that suggested a menk was responsible for deaths in the Dyatlov Pass incident is "a textbook example of modern cable TV mystery-mongering".
In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census , [ 4 ] 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in Tyumen Oblast , of whom 19,568 were living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 9,985—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug . 495 were ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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