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Southern Khanty | |
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Khande | |
Native to | Russia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast) |
Region | lower Irtysh |
Ethnicity | <1,000 southern Khanty |
Extinct | mid-20th century[1] 56 (2010)[2] |
Dialects |
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unwritten | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
1og | |
kca-sou | |
Glottolog | sout3226 Southern Khanty |
ELP |
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Map of Khanty and Mansi varieties in the early 20th century, with Southern Khanty |
Southern Khanty is a Uralic language, frequently considered a dialect of a unified Khanty language, spoken by 56 people in 2010.[2] It is considered to be extinct,[1] its speakers having shifted starting in the 18th century to Russian or Siberian Tatar,[3][4] but some speakers of the Kyshikov or Ust-Nazym dialect[5] were found in its former territory. Speakers of Surgut Khanty have moved into the former territory of the Demyanka dialect.[6] It was transitional between the Northern Khanty and Eastern Khanty dialect groups, but it is now a distinct language.[1]