Southern Mansi | |
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(mäńši~mäˈnči ľė̄χ~ľäχ~ľäŋ) [1] | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Sverdlovsk |
Extinct | late 20th century |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog |
sout3253 |
Southern Mansi is classified as Extinct by the
UNESCO
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Southern (Tavda) Mansi was a Uralic language spoken in Russia in the Sverdlovsk. It was recorded from an area isolated from the other Mansi varieties along the river Tavda. [4] Around 1900 a couple hundred speakers existed; in the 1960s it was spoken only by a few elderly speakers, [5] and it has since then become extinct. It had strong Tatar lexical influence[ citation needed] and displayed several archaisms such as vowel harmony, retention of /y/ (elsewhere merged with */æ/), /tsʲ/ (elsewhere deaffricated to /sʲ/), /æː/ (elsewhere fronted to /aː/ or diphthongized) and /ɑː/ (elsewhere raised to /oː/).[ citation needed]
Russian researchers use the term "southern dialect" ( Russian: южный диалект) when describing the Tavda language. [4]