Mansi

Also known as Vogul, Mansi language

Uralic language spoken in Russia

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Mansi is a language spoken by the Mansi people in northern Russia, belonging to the Uralic language family (which also includes Finnish and Hungarian). It is endangered and linguistically significant as one of the few remaining indigenous languages of the Ural region, making its preservation important for understanding linguistic diversity and the heritage of Russia's native peoples.

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 938
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MNS
Commons category: Mansi language
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The Mansi languages are spoken by the Mansi people in Siberia, Russia along the Ob River and its tributaries, in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Sverdlovsk Oblast. Traditionally considered a single language, they constitute a branch of the Ugric languages, within the broader Uralic language family. They are often considered most closely related to neighbouring Khanty and then to Hungarian.

The base dialect of the Mansi literary language is the Sosva dialect, a representative of the northern language. Fixed word order is typical in Mansi. Adverbials and participles play an important role in sentence construction.