Northern Mansi language
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The Northern Mansi language is a Uralic language spoken in Russia in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Sverdlovsk Oblast. It's one of 4 Mansi languages and the only one still in use.
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Northern Mansi | |
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ма̄ньси ла̄тыӈ | |
Pronunciation | [maːnʲɕi laːtəŋ] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Khanty–Mansi, Sverdlovsk |
Ethnicity | 12,200 Mansi (2020 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 2,200 (2020 census)[1] |
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Official status | |
Regulated by | Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Science and Development |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | mans1258 |
ELP | Northern Mansi |
Map of regions where those who speak the extant Northern Mansi language. The gradient represents the uncertainty in where the language can be spoken. (2022) | |
Northern Mansi is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
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Northern Mansi has strong Russian, Komi, Nenets, and Northern Khanty influence, and it's the literary Mansi language. There is no accusative case; that is, both the nominative and accusative roles are unmarked on the noun. */æ/ and */æː/ have been backed to [a] and [aː].
This article is focusing on the Severnaya Sosva dialect of Northern Mansi as that is considered the literary language.