Southern Khanty language

Southern Khanty
Native toRussia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast)
Regionlower Irtysh
Ethnicity<1,000 southern Khanty
Extinctmid-20th century[1]
56 (2010)[2]
Dialects
  • Irtysh
  • Demyansky
  • Konda
  • Ust-Nazym
  • Sogom
unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3
1og
 kca-sou
Glottologsout3226  Southern Khanty
ELP8551
Map of Khanty and Mansi varieties in the early 20th century, with   Southern Khanty

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]

Classification

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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

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Dialects of Southern Khanty:[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ a b "«Лингвистический оптимизм»: репортаж с конференции «Лингвистический форум 2019: Коренные языки России и мира»". Институт языкознания РАН. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  3. ^ "Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report". University of Helsinki. 2019-02-11. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  4. ^ "Исчезающие народы/языки: Ханты, южн.; Южнохантыйский (Southern Khanty)". moodle.kubsu.ru. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  5. ^ "Диалекты и говоры хантыйского языка". Культурное наследие Югры. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  6. ^ Csepregi, Márta (2023-02-20), "Khanty1", The Uralic Languages (2 ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 703–752, doi:10.4324/9781315625096-16, ISBN 978-1-315-62509-6, retrieved 2024-08-27
  7. ^ Honti 1998, p. 336.
  8. ^ Abondolo 1998, pp. 358–359.
  9. ^ Honti 1998, p. 338.
  10. ^ Honti, László (1981), "Ostjakin kielen itämurteiden luokittelu", Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, Turku 20.-27. VIII. 1980, Turku: Suomen kielen seura, pp. 95–100

Sources

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