Also Known As:
Northern Khant, Ostyak, северно-хантыйский язык, хӑнты ясӑң, khănty yasăŋ, Northern Khante, Ostyak, Ostiak, Ugrian Ostyak
Dialects & Varieties
- Ob
- Kazym
- Berezovo
- Sherkaly
- Nizyam
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
Threatened
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~10,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 2
A majority of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are gradually decreasing.
2
Transmission
Transmission 1
Most adults in the community, and some children, are speakers.
1
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
~15,000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
Degree of speakers' competence: generally good, though under increasing interference from Russian; Northern Khanty itself is, however, far from a uniform language, and the dialectal varieties cannot be served by a single normative standard.
Location and Context
Countries
Russia
Location Description
in the lower Ob basin and on its tributaries; administratively mainly within the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of Tyumen' Oblast, Russia
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Russian
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
Cyrillic script
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
separate written norms (in Cyrillic script) exist for some of the dialects, but they have very limited use
Recent Resources
The collection of links containing texts written in Khanty.
Mark Gospel in Northern Khanty. Text and mp3. Bible Search program modules.