Also Known As:
Eastern Khant, Ostyak, восточно-хантыйский язык, кантыкский язык, хӑнты ясӑң, khănty yasăŋ, Ostiak, Ugrian Ostyak, остяцкий язык, Eastern Khante
Dialects & Varieties
- Yugan
- Vakh
- Vasugyan
- Aleksandrovo
- Surgut
Aspects of the Grammar of Eastern Khanty
Aspects of the Grammar of Eastern Khanty
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~480
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
<1000
Year information was gathered
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Comments on speakers
"The attempts at developing teaching materials inKhanty are based mostly on the western dialects.... Efficacy of attempted mother tongue education suffered from students'and teachers' alienation from the existing teaching aids, as they are based on other dialects, which differ considerably from those spoken locally
Location and Context
Countries
Tomsk oblast', Russia
Location Description
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
None
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
None
Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
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Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
"Except for a small textbook in Surgut dialect, Eastern Khanty is unwritten, and there is no educational instruction in it as the native language. Standardization of the language has not occurred."
Recent Resources
A small set (3) Vasyugan Khanty texts, fully glossed and translated into Russian and English, record
"The goal of the project is to provide innovative descriptive resources for and modern linguistic an