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Northern Khanty
хӑнты йасәӈ hănty jasəṇ
Native to	Russia
Region	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Ethnicity	15,000 northern Khanty
Native speakers	(c. 10,000 cited 1993)
Language family	Uralic Khanty Northern Khanty
Dialects	Middle Ob Kazym Obdorsk Shuryshkary
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (all Khanty varieties)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	1of
	kca-nor
Glottolog	nort3264  Northern Khanty
ELP	8550 Northern Khanty
Map of Khanty and Mansi varieties in the early 20th century, with   Northern Khanty

Northern Khanty is a Uralic language, frequently considered a dialect of a unified Khanty language, spoken by about 9,000 people. It is the most widely spoken out of all the Khanty languages, the majority composed of 5,000 speakers in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Russia. The reason for this discrepancy is that dialects of Northern Khanty have been better preserved in its northern reaches, and the Middle Ob and Kazym dialects are losing favor to Russian. All four dialects have been literary, beginning with the Middle Ob dialects, but shifting to Kazym, and back to Middle Ob, now the most used dialect in writing. The Shuryshkary dialects are also written, primarily due to an administrative division between the two, as the latter is spoken in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Dialects

Dialects of Northern Khanty:

• Obdorsk (Priuralsky District)
• Berjozov (Synja, Muzhi, Shuryshkar), Kazym, Sherkal

Transitional

• Atlym, Nizyam

Phonology

Kazym

Consonants

The Kazym dialect distinguishes 18 consonants.

Vowels

The vowel inventory is much simpler. Eight vowels are distinguished in initial syllables: six full /i e a ɒ o u/ and four reduced /ĭ ă ŏ ŭ/. In unstressed syllables, four values are found: /ɑ ə ĕ ĭ/.

A similarly simple vowel inventory is found in the Nizyam, Sherkal, and Berjozov dialects, which have full /e a ɒ u/ and reduced /ĭ ɑ̆ ŏ ŭ/. Aside from the full vs. reduced contrast rather than one of length, this is identical to that of the adjacent Sosva dialect of Mansi.

Shuryshkar

Obdorsk

Vowels

The Obdorsk dialect has retained full close vowels and has a nine-vowel system: full vowels /i e æ ɑ o u/ and reduced vowels /æ̆ ɑ̆ ŏ/.

Consonants

However, it has a simpler consonant inventory, having the lateral approximants /l lʲ/ in place of the fricatives /ɬ ɬʲ/ and having fronted *š *ṇ to /s n/.

Alphabet

A new alphabet scheme was published in 2013. The various written standards, such as Kazym (Northern Khanty) and Surgut (Eastern Khanty), have their own versions of this alphabet, with some different letters. The influential Просвещение [ru] (Enlightenment/Education) publishing house, which publishes many of the textbooks and early literacy material for the smaller languages of Russia, designed curved-tail variants of the letters ԯ and ң with a tick, namely ԓ and ӈ, and these have been redundantly encoded in Unicode as separate characters. These hooked forms have been chosen as the preferred allographs of these letters for the Kazym alphabet. However, the respected Khanty-language journal Хӑнты ясӑӊ [ru] uses the diagonal-tail forms ӆ and ӊ for Kazym.

и and ы are allophones, breaking the phonemic principle of the alphabet.

Vocabulary examples

Example text

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Kazym Khanty:

Хуԯыева мирӑт вәԯьня па имуртӑн вәԯты щира сєма питԯӑт. Ԯыв нумсаңӑт па ԯывеԯа еԯєм атум ут вєрты па кўтэԯн ԯыв ԯәхсӑңа вәԯԯӑт.

(Хуԓыева мирӑт вәԓьня па имуртӑн вәԓты щира сєма питԓӑт. Ԓыв нумсаӈӑт па ԓывеԓа еԓєм атум ут вєрты па кўтэԓн ԓыв ԓәхсӑӈа вәԓԓӑт.)

Hułyjewa mirăt wəł’nja pa imurtăn wəłty sjira sêma pitłăt. Ływ numsaṇăt pa ływjeła jełêm atum ut wêrty pa kŭtełn ływ łəhsăṇa wəłłăt.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in English:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Article 1 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Kazym Khanty:

Шуши мирӑт ияха муй па атэԯта вәԯты щир тӑйԯӑт, хуԯыева хӑннєхәйт па мєт вуԯаң вәԯьня вєрӑт, щитӑт мўвтєԯ мирӑт вєрӑт вантты па тўңматты тӑхи мўвтєԯ мирӑт вәԯты щир декларация нєпекн хӑншман па артаԯуман вәԯԯӑт.

(Шуши мирӑт ияха муй па атэԓта вәԓты щир тӑйԓӑт, хуԓыева хӑннєхәйт па мєт вуԓаң вәԓьня вєрӑт, щитӑт мўвтєԓ мирӑт вєрӑт вантты па тўңматты тӑхи мўвтєԓ мирӑт вәԓты щир декларация нєпекн хӑншман па артаԓуман вәԓԓӑт.)

Šuši mirăt ijaha muj pa atełta wəłty sjir tăjłăt, hułyjewa hănnêhəjt pa mêt wułaṇ wəł’nja wêrăt, sjităt mŭwtêł mirăt wêrăt wantty pa tŭṇmatty tăhi mŭwtêł mirăt wəłty sjir djeklaracija nêpjekn hănšman pa artałuman wəłłăt.

Article 1 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in English:

Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.

Notes

1. Wiktionary Khanty transliteration
2. ^ These letters are digitized as ԯ ң, ԓ ӈ, or ӆ ӊ, depending on the publisher.

References

1. ^ "Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report". University of Helsinki. 2019-02-11. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
2. "Севернохантыйский язык | Minority languages of Russia". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
3. ^ Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
4. Comrie, Bernard (1981). The languages of the Soviet Union. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge  ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29877-3.
5. Honti, László (1981), "Ostjakin kielen itämurteiden luokittelu", Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, Turku 20.-27. VIII. 1980, Turku: Suomen kielen seura, pp. 95–100
6. Honti 1998, p. 338.
7. Honti 1998, p. 337.
8. Каксин, А. Д. (2010). Казымский диалект хантыйского языка (PDF). Ханты-Мансийск. ISBN 978-5-9611-0041-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
9. ^ Abondolo 1998, p. 360.
10. Abondolo 2023, p. 709. sfn error: no target: CITEREFAbondolo2023 (help)
11. ^ The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages 2022, p. 97.
12. L2/23-015 Comments on CYRILLIC CHE WITH HOOK’s use in Khanty and Tofa (Tofalar) (L2/22-280).
13. ^ N. B. Koshkareva (2013) Topical issues of perfection of the Khanty script and orthography - Brief summary describing situation with Khanty orthography.
14. See for example the issue here
15. N. B. Koshkareva (2013) Topical issues of perfection of the Khanty script and orthography - Brief summary describing situation with Khanty orthography.
16. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages 2022, pp. 585–586.
17. Решетникова, Раиса (2014-09-17). "Хӑннєхә вәԯты щир оԯӑңӑн декларация нєпек – Всеобщая декларация прав человека". Хӑнты ясӑң (18).
18. Решетникова, Раиса (2014-09-17). "Шуши мир вәԯты щир мўвтєԯ мир вєрӑт вантты па тўңматты тӑхи декларация нєпек". Хӑнты ясӑң (18).

Sources

• Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena, eds. (2022-03-24). The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198767664.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-876766-4.
• Abondolo, Daniel (1998). "Khanty". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.). The Uralic Languages.
• Honti, László (1998). "ObUgrian". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.). The Uralic Languages.

v t e Uralic languages
List of Uralic languages
Finnic	Bjarmian languages Estonian Laiuse Romani Northeastern coastal South Estonian Seto Võro Mulgi Tartu Ludza Kraasna Leivu Finnish Fingelska Kven Meänkieli Siberian Finnish Ingrian Siberian Ingrian Finnish Karelian Karelian proper Livvi Ludic Livonian Veps Votic Krevinian Kukkuzi
Sámi	Eastern Sámi Akkala Inari Kainuu Kemi Kildin Skolt Ter Western Sámi Lule Northern Pite Southern Ume
Mordvinic	Erzya Shoksha dialect [de; ru] Moksha
Mari	Hill Mari Meadow Mari Northwestern Mari
Permic	Komi Komi-Yazva Komi-Permyak Udmurt
Ugric	Hungarian Ob-Ugric Khanty Northern Khanty Southern Khanty Eastern Khanty Mansi Northern Mansi Western Mansi Eastern Mansi Southern Mansi
Samoyedic	Enets Kamas Koibal Mator Taygi [ru] Karagas [ru] Nenets Forest Nenets Tundra Nenets Nganasan Selkup Yurats
Others	Merya Meshcherian Muromian
Reconstructed	Proto-Uralic homeland Proto-Finnic Proto-Sámi Proto-Samoyedic
Italics indicate extinct languages Languages between parentheses are varieties of the language on their left.

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