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| Northern Khanty | |
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| хӑнты йасәӈ hănty jasəṇ[note 1] | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
| Ethnicity | 15,000 northern Khanty[1] |
Native speakers | (c. 10,000 cited 1993)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Cyrillic | |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (all Khanty varieties) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
1of | |
kca-nor | |
| Glottolog | nort3264 Northern Khanty |
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 Map of Khanty and Mansi varieties in the early 20th century, with Northern Khanty | |
Northern Khanty is a Uralic language, frequently considered a dialect of a unified Khanty language, spoken by about 9,000 people.[2] It is the most widely spoken out of all the Khanty languages, the majority composed of 5,000 speakers in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Russia.[3] The reason for this discrepancy is that dialects of Northern Khanty have been better preserved in its northern reaches, and the Middle Ob and Kazym dialects are losing favor to Russian. All four dialects have been literary, beginning with the Middle Ob dialects, but shifting to Kazym, and back to Middle Ob, now the most used dialect in writing.[4] The Shuryshkary dialects are also written, primarily due to an administrative division between the two, as the latter is spoken in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.[3]
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- ^ a b "Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report". University of Helsinki. 2019-02-11. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
- ^ "Севернохантыйский язык | Minority languages of Russia". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ a b Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
- ^ Comrie, Bernard (1981). The languages of the Soviet Union. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29877-3.