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ALSO KNOWN AS		Northern Vogul, Sos'va, северно-мансийский язык, Northern Man'si, вогульский, маньси, моаньсь
CLASSIFICATION		Uralic, Mansi
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic script
CODE AUTHORITY		LINGUIST List
LANGUAGE CODE		1nt
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Sygva Sosva Ob Upper Loz'va
DOWNLOAD		As csv
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Mansi is, with some justification, often considered to be a single language with four main groups of dialects; the linguistic differences within Mansi are, indeed, smaller than those within the otherwise comparable cases of Khanty, Selkup, and Ket.

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Information from: “Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia” . Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen (2000)

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~3,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~7,000
CHILDREN
very few, if any
YOUNG ADULTS
0?

DATE OF INFO: 1993

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

mean age of youngest speakers: unknown, but mainly more than 40 years

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Russian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

degree of speakers' competence: often rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the speakers

Scripts (Writing system)

Cyrillic script

More on Orthography

There is a written standard (in Cyrillic script), but its use is limited to school textbooks aiming at introducing the language of the older generation to the already Russianized children.

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: on the western tributaries to the lower Ob, mainly along the Sosva, and in the central and northern Ural mountains, within the forest zone; administratively mainly within the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of Tyumen' Oblast, Russia

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
11,000

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Uralic region, Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: small group of Vogul speakers live by the Upper-Lozva River near Ivdel

	2000	Red Book on Endangered Languages: Northeast Asia			UNESCO	http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen	Juha Janhunen; Tapani Salminen. 2000. "UNESCO RED BOOK ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: NORTHEAST ASIA." Online: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html		~7,000	0?	~3,000	1993	1000-9999	Russian	degree of speakers' competence: often rudimentary, under strong interference from Russian, the principal language of the speakers	Endangered (80 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	13	mean age of youngest speakers: unknown, but mainly more than 40 years	14	Russia	on the western tributaries to the lower Ob, mainly along the Sosva, and in the central and northern Ural mountains, within the forest zone; administratively mainly within the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of Tyumen' Oblast, Russia
3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger	UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub														62.6539,63.1494
	2005	"Endangered Language Situation of the Upper-Lozva Voguls in Ivdel, North-West Siberia, Russia" HRELP Abstract				http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=63	Gabor Szekely	Szekely, Gabor. 2005. ""Endangered Language Situation of the Upper-Lozva Voguls in Ivdel, North-West Siberia, Russia" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=63.		11,000		3,000		1000-9999	Russian, Tatar		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)				Uralic region, Russia	small group of Vogul speakers live by the Upper-Lozva River near Ivdel

Northern Mansi

Language metadata

Language information by source

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available

~3,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3,000

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