Southern Mansi

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Southern Mansi is a dialect of the Uralic Mansi language traditionally spoken by the Mansi people in parts of western Siberia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Mansi canonical 3

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Uralic language variety
dialect
continent Asia
country Russia
documentation described in Uralic linguistics literature
endangermentCause Russification
intergenerational language shift
urbanization
ethnicGroup Mansi
glottologStatus treated as dialect of Mansi
hasCaseSystem true
hasVowelHarmony true
historicalUsage traditional daily communication among Southern Mansi communities
ISO639Status no separate ISO 639-3 code (included under Mansi "mns")
languageFamily Uralic languages
surface form: Uralic
languageShiftTo Russian
moreDivergentFrom Eastern Mansi
Western Mansi
morphology rich inflectional morphology
partOf Mansi dialect continuum
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some descriptions)
rich consonant inventory
region Western Siberia
surface form: western Siberia
relatedTo Eastern Mansi
Northern Mansi
Western Mansi
researchField Finno-Ugric linguistics
Uralic studies
sharesFeaturesWith Hungarian language
Khanty language
spokenBy Mansi people
spokenIn villages along tributaries of the Ob River
status moribund
severely endangered
subdivisionOf Mansi language
subfamily Ugric
traditionalRegion Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Sverdlovsk Oblast NERFINISHED
typology agglutinative language
usedIn folklore
oral tradition
storytelling
traditional songs
wordOrder SOV-dominant
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mansi language hasDialect Southern Mansi
Vogul language hasDialect Southern Mansi
Eastern Mansi relatedTo Southern Mansi