Southern Mansi language

Southern or Tavda Mansi is an extinct Uralic language spoken in Russia in the Sverdlovsk. It was recorded from an area isolated from the other Mansi varieties along the river Tavda.^[4] Around 1900 a couple hundred speakers existed; in the 1960s it was spoken only by a few elderly speakers,^[5] and it has since then become extinct. It had strong Tatar lexical influence^{[citation needed]} and displayed several archaisms such as vowel harmony, retention of /y/ (elsewhere merged with */æ/), /tsʲ/ (elsewhere deaffricated to /sʲ/), /æː/ (elsewhere fronted to /aː/ or diphthongized) and /ɑː/ (elsewhere raised to /oː/).^{[citation needed]}

Southern Mansi
Tavda Mansi
mäńši~mäˈnči ľė̄χ~ľäχ~ľäŋ[1]
Pronunciation	[mæɲʃi~mæ̍nt͡ʃi ľėːχ~lʲæχ~lʲæŋ]
Native to	Russia
Region	Sverdlovsk Oblast
Extinct	by 1950s
Language family	Uralic (Finno-Ugric ?) (Ugric ?) (Ob-Ugric ?) Mansi Southern Mansi
Dialects	Tavda Tagil Tura Chusovaya (all extinct)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	sout3253
Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements[2][3]
Southern Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Russian researchers use the term "southern dialect" (Russian: южный диалект) when describing the Tavda language.^[4]

References

1. Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
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. Ромбандеева 1976.
5. Kalman, Bela (1997). Vogul Chrestomathy (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780700708468.

Sources

• Ромбандеева, Е. И. (1976). "Мансийский язык". Основы финно-угорского языкознания. Марийский, пермский и угорские языки (in Russian). Москва: Наука. pp. 229–239.