Eastern Mansi language
Eastern Mansi | |
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маньсь лынгх Khanty–Mansi | |
Extinct | 2018 |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | east2879 |
ELP | Eastern Mansi |
Eastern Mansi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Eastern Mansi was a
In Russian linguistics the Konda dialect used to be called the "southern Mansi (Kondinsky) dialect" (Russian: южно-мансийский (кондинский) диалект[6]) or "eastern Mansi dialect group" (Russian: восточная группа диалектов).[7]
Alphabet
In the few instances that Eastern Mansi literature was printed and was from the native areas, it used an unchanged Russian-Cyrillic script like this:
The highlighted letters are found in loanwords, except нг which is considered as a singular letter in the “Ворыяп хумый” (“Two Hunters”) by P. K. Cheymetov,[8] and г is substituted with the letter й in some dialects [citation needed]
А а
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Б б
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В в
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Г г
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Д д
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Е е
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Ё ё
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Ж ж
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З з
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И и
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Й й
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К к
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Л л
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М м
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Н н
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Нг нг
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О о
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П п
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Р р
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С с
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Т т
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У у
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Ф ф
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Х х
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Ц ц
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Ч ч
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Ш ш
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Щ щ
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Ъ ъ
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Ы ы
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Ь ь
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Э э
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Ю ю
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Я я
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Dialects
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Phonology
Source:[9]
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | (Alveolo-) Palatal |
Velar | ||
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Plain | Labialized | ||||
Nasals
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/m/ м |
/n/ н |
/nʲ/ нь |
/ŋ/ [1] нг [3] |
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Stops
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/p/ п |
/t/ т |
/tʲ/ ть |
/k/ к |
/kʷ/ кв |
Affricate
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/sʲ/ сь |
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Fricatives
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/s/ н |
/x/ [2] х /ɣ/ [1] г |
/xʷ/ [2] хв | ||
Semivowels | /j/ й |
/w/ в | |||
Laterals
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/l/ л |
/lʲ/ ль |
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Trill | /r/ р |
Some remarks:
- Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do these appear at the beginning of words.
- In Middle Konda it does not appear in the beginning of words, but in Lower Konda it does.
- /ŋ/ is also spelled with just н if it comes before к or х. This rule does not include suffixes; like in мынгым /mənɣəm/
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | ||||
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Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
Close | i K[1] | y, yː K[3] | u, uː K[3] | |||
Close-mid | ɘ, ɘː KM | o, oː K[3] | ||||
Mid | e ~ i eːK [2] [3] |
(ə) | ||||
Near-open | æ, æː K | |||||
Open | a, aː K [4] | ɒ ~ ɑ K |
(KM=Present in Middle Konda | KU=Present in Lower Konda | K=Present in both)
Some remarks:
- Only present in palatal environments.
- It has the allophone /iː/.
- Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do these appear in non-initial syllable positions.
- Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do /aː/ appear in first syllable positions.
Diphthongs
In Middle Konda, the diphthongs are /øæ/ or /øæ̯/ and /oɒ/ found in both first and non-initial syllable positions.
In Lower Konda, the /æø/ diphthong is usually realized as /œ/ which is only found in first syllable positions, while /øæ/ is found in both first and non-initial syllable positions.
References
- ^ Mansi-Russian dictionary (Kondinsky dialect of the Mansi language), Based on the story by P. K. Cheymetov “Ворыяп хумый” (“Two Hunters”) page 48
- ^ Dictionary of Yukonda dialect of Mansi, Lingvodoc 3.0 [1]
- PMID 35675367.
- ^ Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
- ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
- ^ Кузакова Е.А. Южно-мансийский (кондинский) диалект.: автореф. на соискат уч. степ. канд. филол. н. Л., 1963. (in Russian)
- ^ Ромбандеева 1976.
- ^ Mansi-Russian dictionary (Kondinsky dialect of the Mansi language), Based on the story by P. K. Cheymetov “Ворыяп хумый” (“Two Hunters”) page 36
- ^ Ob-Ugric database of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany; Phonology of Eastern Mansi [2]
Sources
- Ромбандеева, Е. И. (1976). "Мансийский язык". Основы финно-угорского языкознания. Марийский, пермский и угорские языки (in Russian). Москва: Наука. pp. 229–239.
Further reading
- Баландин А.Н., Вахрушева М.П. Мансийско-русский словарь с лексическими параллелями из южно-мансийского (кондинского) диалекта. Л., 1958. (in Russian)
- Кузакова Е.А. Южно-мансийский (кондинский) диалект.: автореф. на соискат уч. степ. канд. филол. н. Л., 1963. (in Russian)