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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]
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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 and Northern Khanty share various innovations and can be grouped together as Western Khanty. These include loss of full front rounded vowels: *üü, *öö, *ɔ̈ɔ̈ > *ii, *ee, *ää (but *ɔ̈ɔ̈ > *oo adjacent to *k, *ŋ),[7] loss of vowel harmony, fricativization of *k to /x/ adjacent to back vowels,[8] and the loss of the *ɣ phoneme.[9]
Dialects of Southern Khanty:[10]
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