Also Known As:
Eastern Khant, Ostyak, восточно-хантыйский язык, кантыкский язык, хӑнты ясӑң, khănty yasăŋ, Ostiak, Ugrian Ostyak, остяцкий язык, Eastern Khante
Dialects & Varieties
- Yugan
- Vakh
- Vasugyan
- Aleksandrovo
- Surgut
Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia
Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
5
Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
4
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
No results found.
Second-language speakers and learners
No results found.
Semi-speakers or rememberers
No results found.
Children:
No results found.
Young adults
probably none
Older adults
No results found.
Elders
No results found.
Ethnic or community population
<5,000
Year information was gathered
No results found.
Comments on speakers
degree of speakers' competence: mainly rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the remaining speakers; there is also some traditional bilingualism between Eastern Khanty and Central Selkup
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
along the western and eastern tributaries to the middle Ob, from the Vasyugan to the Pim
Government Support
No results found.
Institutional Support
No results found.
Speakers' Attitude
No results found.
Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian, Central Selkup
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
No results found.
Writing system:
No results found.
Other writing systems used:
No results text.
Comments on writing systems:
No results found.
Recent Resources
A small set (3) Vasyugan Khanty texts, fully glossed and translated into Russian and English, record
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