Khanty

Khanty (Ханты)

Khanty is a member of the Ob Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric language family
and is spoken by about 13,000 people in the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous
Okrugs, and also in the Alexandrovsky and Kargosoksky Districts of Tomsk Oblast in Russia.
Khanty is also known as Xanty or Ostyak.

Khanty was written with a version of the Latin alphabet from 1930 to 1937, when the
Cyrillic alphabet was adopted. Literary works have been published in three Khanty dialects:
Kazym, Shuryshkar, and middle-Ob. The main dialect used for in newspapers, TV and radio is
the Kazym dialect.

Khanty alphabet and pronunciation

Khanty alphabet and pronunciation

Information about Khanty pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel

Sample text in Khanty

-Монсев олаӈ ятал-
Кеваӈ мув суӈатна
Унтаӈ мув суӈатна
Вутаӈ сяарсат шанш пеԓкатна.
Му шомайн ԓойты
Восты турмев ям иԓпина
Муваӈ ху муваԓна
Куртаӈ ху куртаԓнах
Йи ики вуԓмаԓ.
Пирась ху сякаԓ сув,
Пирась ху кавраԓ сув.
Мортаԓна карымаԓ,
Оял-ки ой таймаԓ-хԓлам пох.
Вун пох икеԓ ошаң вуԓмаԓ.
Кутпаԓ еша ошиԓыԓԓы.

Source: http://rutube.ru/tracks/2940159.html?v=9b1324f74a078a72b8e0e6174fe9ced7

Links

Information about the Khanty language and people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanty_language
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/khantys.shtml
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~andreif/project/Khanty language.htm
http://www.hunmagyar.org/turan/khaman/khant.html

Online Khanty dictionaries
http://www.sever.eduhmao.ru/info/3/5726/87707/
http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:Woorden_in_het_Ostjaaks

Videos in Khanty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCeugzD5v1E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iyOWZwWOUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHNTJmGkts

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra
http://www.admhmao.ru/english/

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