Khanty languages

Khanty
Ostyak
Geographic
distribution		Khanty–Mansi
Ethnicity31,467 Khanty people (2020 census)[1]
Native speakers
14,000 (2020 census)[1]
Linguistic classificationUralic
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-3kca
Glottologkhan1279  (Khantyic)
Khanty and Mansi languages at the beginning of the 20th century[2][3]
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Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti), previously known as Ostyak (/ˈɒstjæk/),[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 Yamalo-Nenets Okrugs. There were thought to be around 7,500 speakers of Northern Khanty and 2,000 speakers of Eastern Khanty in 2010, with Southern Khanty being extinct since the early 20th century.[5] The number of speakers reported in the 2020 census was 13,900.[6][1]

The Khanty language has many dialects. The western group includes the Obdorian, Ob, and Irtysh dialects. The eastern group includes the Surgut and Vakh-Vasyugan dialects, which, in turn, are subdivided into thirteen other dialects. All these dialects differ significantly from each other by phonetic, morphological, and lexical features to the extent that the three main "dialects" (northern, southern and eastern) are mutually unintelligible.[7] Thus, based on their significant multifactorial differences, Eastern, Northern and Southern Khanty could be considered separate but closely related languages.

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  2. ^ Rantanen, Timo; Tolvanen, Harri; Roose, Meeli; Ylikoski, Jussi; Vesakoski, Outi (2022-06-08). "Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic". PLOS ONE. 17 (6): e0269648. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1769648R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269648. PMC 9176854. PMID 35675367.
  3. ^ Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
  4. ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
  5. ^ Abondolo 2017[full citation needed]
  6. ^ "Khanty language, alphabet and pronunciation". omniglot.com. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  7. ^ Gulya 1966, pp. 5–6.