Endangered Languages Project

Alias		Southern Khant, Ostyak, южно-хантыйский язык, хӑнты ясӑң, Southern Khante, Ostiak, Ugrian Ostyak, остяцкий язык,
KLASSIFIZIERUNG		Uralic, Khanty
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
SPRACHENCODE		1og
VARIANTEN & DIALEKTE		Dem'yanka Konda Irtysh
DOWNLOAD		Als csv
WEITERE KOMMENTARE		Though often considered to be a single language, Khanty is actually a group of three mutually unintelligible conglomerations of dialects that may well be counted as separate languages.

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

According to unconfirmed information there are no speakers left; in any case, the transmission of the language to children has ceased long ago.

ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN

KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT

Degree of speakers' competence: Southern Khanty used to be under strong interference not only from Russian, but also from Siberian Tatar.

					2000	Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia										UNESCO				http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html			<1,000			No known speakers	1993							Russian, Siberian Tatar				Degree of speakers' competence: Southern Khanty used to be under strong interference not only from Russian, but also from Siberian Tatar.			Dormant ()			According to unconfirmed information there are no speakers left; in any case, the transmission of the language to children has ceased long ago.					Russia	in the lower Irtysh basin and on its tributaries
			3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger						UNESCO Publishing			Paris					http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub																														60.4301,69.9829

Southern Khanty