Khanty language
Khanty (also spelled Khanti or Hanti), previously known as Ostyak (/ˈɒstiæk/), is a Uralic language spoken in the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Okrugs. There were thought to be around 7,500 speakers of Northern Khanty and 2,000 speakers of Eastern Khanty in 2010, with Southern Khanty being extinct since the early 20th century, however the total amount of speakers in the most recent census was around 13,900.
| Khanty | |
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| ханты ясаң hantĭ jasaŋ | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Khanty–Mansi |
| Ethnicity | 31,467 Khanty people (2020 census) |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2020 census) |
Uralic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kca |
| Glottolog | khan1279 |
Khanty and Mansi languages at the beginning of the 20th century | |
The Khanty language has many dialects. The western group includes the Obdorian, Ob, and Irtysh dialects. The eastern group includes the Surgut and Vakh-Vasyugan dialects, which, in turn, are subdivided into thirteen other dialects. All these dialects differ significantly from each other by phonetic, morphological, and lexical features to the extent that the three main "dialects" (northern, southern and eastern) are mutually unintelligible. Thus, based on their significant multifactorial differences, Eastern, Northern and Southern Khanty could be considered separate but closely related languages.