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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
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]
^ abcSalminen, 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. ISBN978-1-138-65084-8.
^Honti, László (1981), "Ostjakin kielen itämurteiden luokittelu", Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, Turku 20.-27. VIII. 1980, Turku: Suomen kielen seura, pp. 95–100
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