Southern Mansi language
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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]
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Southern Mansi | |
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(mäńši~mäˈnči ľė̄χ~ľäχ~ľäŋ)[1] | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Sverdlovsk |
Extinct | late 20th century |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | sout3253 |
Southern Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
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Russian researchers use the term "southern dialect" (Russian: южный диалект) when describing the Tavda language.[4]