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Northern Khanty
хӑнты йасәӈhănty jasəṇ[note 1]
Pronunciation	[xantijaːsəŋ]
Native to	Russia
Region	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug,Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Ethnicity	15,000 northernKhanty[1]
Native speakers	(c. 10,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Uralic Khanty Northern Khanty
Dialects	Middle Ob Kazym Obdorsk Shuryshkar
Writing system	Cyrillic
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (all Khanty varieties)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	1of
	kca-nor
Glottolog	nort3264  Northern Khanty
ELP	Northern Khanty
Map of regions where those who speak the Northern Khanty language.(2020/21)   75%-100%   35%-75%   15%-35%

Northern Khanty is aUralic language, frequently considered a dialect of a unifiedKhanty language, spoken by about 9,000 people.^[2] It is the most widely spoken out of all the Khanty languages, the majority composed of 5,000 speakers in theYamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in Russia.^[3] The reason for this discrepancy is that dialects of Northern Khanty have been better preserved in its northern reaches, and the Middle Ob and Kazym dialects are losing favor to Russian. All four dialects have been literary, beginning with the Middle Ob dialects, but shifting to Kazym, and back to Middle Ob, now the most used dialect in writing.^[4] The Shuryshkar dialects are also written, primarily due to an administrative division between the two, as the latter is spoken in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.^[3]

Dialects of Northern Khanty:^[5]

• Obdorsk (Priuralsky District)
• Berjozov (Synja, Muzhi, Shuryshkar),Kazym, Sherkal

• Atlym, Nizyam

The Kazym dialect distinguishes 18 consonants.

The vowel inventory is much simpler. Eight vowels are distinguished in initial syllables: six full/ieaɒou/ and four reduced/ĭăŏŭ/. In unstressed syllables, four values are found:/ɑəĕĭ/.^[7][8]

A similarly simple vowel inventory is found in the Nizyam, Sherkal, and Berjozov dialects, which have full/eaɒu/ and reduced/ĭɑ̆ŏŭ/. Aside from the full vs. reduced contrast rather than one of length, this is identical to that of the adjacent Sosva dialect ofMansi.^[9]

The Obdorsk dialect has retained full close vowels and has a nine-vowel system: full vowels/ieæɑou/ and reduced vowels/æ̆ɑ̆ŏ/.^[9]

However, it has a simpler consonant inventory, having the lateral approximants /l lʲ/ in place of the fricatives /ɬ ɬʲ/ and having fronted*š*ṇ to /s n/.

A new alphabet scheme for Northern Khanty was published in 2013.^[11] The various written standards, such as Kazym (Northern Khanty) and Surgut (Eastern Khanty), have their own versions of this alphabet, with some different letters. The influentialПросвещение [ru] (Enlightenment/Education) publishing house, which publishes many of the textbooks and early literacy material for the smaller languages of Russia, designed curved-tail variants of the lettersԯ andң with a tick, namelyԓ andӈ, and these have been redundantly encoded in Unicode as separate characters.^[12] These hooked forms have been chosen as the preferredallographs of these letters for the Kazym alphabet.^[13] However, the respected Khanty-language journalХӑнты ясӑӊ [ru] uses the diagonal-tail formsӆ andӊ for Kazym.^[14]

[i]и and[ɨ]ы areallophones, breaking the phonemic principle of the alphabet.^[13]

Article 1 of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights in Kazym Khanty:

Хуԯыева мирӑт вәԯьня па имуртӑн вәԯты щира сєма питԯӑт. Ԯыв нумсаңӑт па ԯывеԯа еԯєм атум ут вєрты па кўтэԯн ԯыв ԯәхсӑңа вәԯԯӑт.^[16]

(Хуԓыйэва мирӑт вәԓьња па имуртӑн вәԓты щира сєма питԓӑт. Ԓыв нумсаӈӑт па ԓывэԓа йэԓєм атум ут вєрты па кўтэԓн ԓыв ԓәхсӑӈа вәԓԓӑт.)

Hułyjewa mirăt wəł’nja pa imurtăn wəłty sjira sêma pitłăt. Ływ numsaṇăt pa ływjeła jełêm atum ut wêrty pa kŭtełn ływ łəhsăṇa wəłłăt.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in English:

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 1 of theDeclaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Kazym Khanty:

Шуши мирӑт ияха муй па атэԯта вәԯты щир тӑйԯӑт, хуԯыева хӑннєхәйт па мєт вуԯаң вәԯьня вєрӑт, щитӑт мўвтєԯ мирӑт вєрӑт вантты па тўңматты тӑхи мўвтєԯ мирӑт вәԯты щир декларация нєпекн хӑншман па артаԯуман вәԯԯӑт.^[17]

(Шуши мирӑт ийаха муй па атэԓта вәԓты щир тӑйԓӑт, хуԓыйэва хӑннєхәйт па мєт вуԓаң вәԓьня вєрӑт, щитӑт мўвтєԓ мирӑт вєрӑт вантты па тўңматты тӑхи мўвтєԓ мирӑт вәԓты щир декларация нєпэкн хӑншман па артаԓуман вәԓԓӑт.)

Šuši mirăt ijaha muj pa atełta wəłty sjir tăjłăt, hułyjewa hănnêhəjt pa mêt wułaṇ wəł’nja wêrăt, sjităt mŭwtêł mirăt wêrăt wantty pa tŭṇmatty tăhi mŭwtêł mirăt wəłty sjir djeklaracija nêpjekn hănšman pa artałuman wəłłăt.

Article 1 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in English:

Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.

• Bakró-Nagy, Marianne; Laakso, Johanna; Skribnik, Elena, eds. (2022-03-24).The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages.Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/oso/9780198767664.001.0001.ISBN 978-0-19-876766-4.
• Abondolo, Daniel (1998). "Khanty". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.).The Uralic Languages.
• Honti, László (1998). "ObUgrian". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.).The Uralic Languages.
• Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa, eds. (2023).The Uralic languages. Routledge language family (2nd ed.). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.ISBN 978-1-315-62509-6.

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