Southern Khanty language

Southern Khanty
хандэKhande
Native to	Russia (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast)
Region	lower Irtysh
Ethnicity	<1,000 southern Khanty
Extinct	mid-20th century [1] 56 (2010) [2]
Language family	Uralic Khanty Southern Khanty
Dialects	Irtysh † Demyansky † Konda † Ust-Nazym Sogom †
Writing system	unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	1og
	kca-sou
Glottolog	sout3226   Southern Khanty
ELP	Southern Khanty Southern Khanty
Map of Khanty and Mansi varieties in the early 20th century, with   Southern Khanty

Southern Khanty is a Uralic language, frequently considered a dialect of a unified Khanty language, spoken by 56 people in 2010. ^[2] It is considered to be extinct, ^[1] its speakers having shifted starting in the 18th century to Russian or Siberian Tatar, ^{[3] [4]} but some speakers of the Kyshikov or Ust-Nazym dialect ^[5] were found in its former territory. Speakers of Surgut Khanty have moved into the former territory of the Demyanka dialect. ^[6] It was transitional between the Northern Khanty and Eastern Khanty dialect groups, but it is now a distinct language. ^[1]

Classification

Southern and Northern Khanty share various innovations and can be grouped together as Western Khanty. These include loss of full front rounded vowels: *üü, *öö, *ɔ̈ɔ̈ > *ii, *ee, *ää (but *ɔ̈ɔ̈ > *oo adjacent to *k, *ŋ), ^[7] loss of vowel harmony, fricativization of *k to /x/ adjacent to back vowels, ^[8] and the loss of the *ɣ phoneme. ^[9]

Dialects

Dialects of Southern Khanty: ^[10]

• Upper Demjanka, Lower Demjanka, Konda, Cingali, Krasnojarsk

See also

• Southern Mansi language

References

1. Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN   978-1-138-65084-8.
2. "«Лингвистический оптимизм»: репортаж с конференции «Лингвистический форум 2019: Коренные языки России и мира»". Институт языкознания РАН. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
3. "Endangered languages in Northeast Asia: report". University of Helsinki . 2019-02-11. Archived from the original on February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
4. "Исчезающие народы/языки: Ханты, южн.; Южнохантыйский (Southern Khanty)". moodle.kubsu.ru. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
5. "Диалекты и говоры хантыйского языка". Культурное наследие Югры. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
6. Csepregi, Márta (2023-02-20), "Khanty1" , The Uralic Languages (2 ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 703–752, doi:10.4324/9781315625096-16, ISBN   978-1-315-62509-6 , retrieved 2024-08-27
7. Honti 1998, p. 336.
8. Abondolo 1998, pp. 358–359.
9. Honti 1998, p. 338.
10. Honti, László (1981), "Ostjakin kielen itämurteiden luokittelu", Congressus Quintus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum, Turku 20.-27. VIII. 1980, Turku: Suomen kielen seura, pp. 95–100

Sources

• Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena, eds. (2022-03-24). The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198767664.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-876766-4.
• Abondolo, Daniel (1998). "Khanty". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.). The Uralic Languages.
• Honti, László (1998). "ObUgrian". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.). The Uralic Languages.