Mansi
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See also: mansi
Etymology
Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).
Pronunciation
Noun
Mansi (plural Mansis or Mansi)
- A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.
- 2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages:
- A small Mansi population has also lived up to the present day on the western slopes of the Ural mountains.
Translations
Proper noun
Mansi
- The Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
- 2010, Christopher Moseley, editor, Atlas of the world's languages in danger:
- The languages of the other three branches – Mansi, Khanty and Samoyed – are or were spoken in Siberia, but the area of Tundra Nenets in the Samoyed branch extends to the west of the Ural mountains, and the area of Southern Mansi also originally covered parts of Europe.
Synonyms
- (language): Vogul
Translations
Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Mansi, mns
Anagrams
Etymology
Plural form of Manso
Proper noun
Mansi m or f by sense
Anagrams
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