Western Mansi language

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Western Mansi
маньсь льӓх, моаньсь лаатых
Pronunciation[manʲsʲ lʲæx], [moɒ̯nʲsʲ laːtəx]
Native toRussia
RegionSverdlovsk
Extinctlate 20th century
Uralic
  • Mansi
    • Western Mansi
Dialects
  • Pelym
  • North Vagil
  • South Vagil
  • Lover Lozva
  • Middle Lozva
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologwest2976
ELPWestern Mansi
Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements[1][2]
Western Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Western Mansi was described as "probably extinct" in 1988. Although the last speaker is not known, none were left by the end of the 20th century.[3] It had strong Russian and Komi influences; dialect differences were also considerable.[4] Long vowels were diphthongized.

References

  1. PMID 35675367
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  2. ^ 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
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  4. ^ Kálmán 1965, pp. 4–5.