Western Mansi language
Western Mansi | |
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маньсь льӓх, моаньсь лаатых | |
Pronunciation | [manʲsʲ lʲæx], [moɒ̯nʲsʲ laːtəx] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Sverdlovsk |
Extinct | late 20th century |
Uralic
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | west2976 |
ELP | Western Mansi |
Western Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
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
- 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.
- ^ Kálmán 1965, pp. 4–5.