Mansi language
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.
| Mansi | |
|---|---|
| ма̄ньси ла̄тыӈ | |
| Pronunciation | [maːnʲɕi laːtəŋ] |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Khanty–Mansi |
| Ethnicity | 12,200 Mansi (2020 census) |
Native speakers | 2,200 (2020 census) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mns |
| Glottolog | mans1269 |
Map of regions where those who speak the extant Northern Mansi and Eastern Mansi languages. The gradient represents the uncertainty in where these languages can be spoken. (2022) | |
Northern Mansi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
The base dialect of the Mansi literary language is the Sosva dialect, a representative of the northern language. The discussion below is based on the standard language. Fixed word order is typical in Mansi. Adverbials and participles play an important role in sentence construction. A written language was first published in 1868, and the current Cyrillic alphabet was devised in 1937.
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