Southern Mansi language explained
| Southern Mansi |
| Nativename: | mäńši~mäˈnči ľė̄χ~ľäχ~ľäŋ[1] |
| States: | Russia |
| Region: | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
| Extinct: | late 20th century |
| Familycolor: | Uralic |
| Fam2: | (Finno-Ugric) |
| Fam3: | (Ugric) |
| Fam4: | (Ob-Ugric) |
| Fam5: | Mansi |
| Dia1: | Tavda |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | sout3253 |
| Glottorefname: | Mansic |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Map: | 6.2-East-Mansi.png |
| Mapcaption: | Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements[2] [3] |
| Map2: | Lang Status 01-EX.svg |
| Dia2: | Tagil |
| Dia3: | Tura |
| Dia4: | Chusovaya (all extinct) |
Southern (Tavda) Mansi is an extinct Uralic language spoken in Russia in the Sverdlovsk. It was recorded from an area isolated from the other Mansi varieties along the river Tavda. Around 1900 a couple hundred speakers existed; in the 1960s it was spoken only by a few elderly speakers, and it has since then become extinct. It had strong Tatar lexical influence and displayed several archaisms such as vowel harmony, retention of pronounced as //y// (elsewhere merged with pronounced as /
/), pronounced as //tsʲ// (elsewhere deaffricated to pronounced as //sʲ//), pronounced as //æː// (elsewhere fronted to pronounced as //aː// or diphthongized) and pronounced as //ɑː// (elsewhere raised to pronounced as //oː//).
Russian researchers use the term "southern dialect" (Russian: южный диалект) when describing the Tavda language.
References
- Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán https://www.babel.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/munka/index.php?word=nyelv&search_mode=2&limit=10&lang=english&id=75DgUkyJhttps://www.babel.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/munka/index.php?word=manysi&search_mode=2&limit=10&lang=english&id=Sae5ua68
- Rantanen . Timo . Tolvanen . Harri . Roose . Meeli . Ylikoski . Jussi . Vesakoski . Outi . 2022-06-08 . Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic . PLOS ONE . en . 17 . 6 . e0269648 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0269648. free . 35675367 . 9176854 . 2022PLoSO..1769648R .
- 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
Sources
- Book: Ромбандеева . Е. И. . Основы финно-угорского языкознания. Марийский, пермский и угорские языки . 1976 . https://babylonians.narod.ru/reading/mansi.html . Наука . Москва . 229–239 . ru . Мансийский язык.
