Southern Mansi language

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 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/).

Southern Mansi
(mäńši~mäˈnči ľė̄χ~ľäχ~ľäŋ)[1]
Native toRussia
RegionSverdlovsk
Extinctlate 20th century
Uralic
Dialects
  • Tavda
  • Tagil
  • Tura
  • Chusovaya (all extinct)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologsout3253
Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements[2][3]
Southern Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)

Russian researchers use the term "southern dialect" (Russian: южный диалект) when describing the Tavda language.[4]

References
  1. Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
  2. 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. 17 (6): e0269648. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1769648R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269648. PMC 9176854. PMID 35675367.
  3. 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
  4. Ромбандеева 1976.
  5. Kálmán 1965, pp. 4–5.

Sources
  • Ромбандеева, Е. И. (1976). "Мансийский язык". Основы финно-угорского языкознания. Марийский, пермский и угорские языки (in Russian). Москва: Наука. pp. 229–239.


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