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Northern Mansi
ма̄ньси ла̄тыӈ,ма̄ньщи ла̄тыӈ mānʹsʹi lātyň
Pronunciation	[maːnʲɕilaːtəŋ]ⓘ
Native to	Russia
Region	Khanty–Mansi,Sverdlovsk
Native speakers	All: 2,200 Daily users: ~900 (2021)[1]
Language family	Uralic Finno-Ugric? Ugric? Ob-Ugric? Mansi Core Northern Mansi
Dialects	Severnaya Sosva Sygva Upper Lozva Ob
Writing system	Cyrillic (Mansi alphabet)
Official status
Regulated by	Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Science and Development
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mns (all Mansi varieties)
Glottolog	mans1258
ELP	Northern Mansi
Map of regions where those who speak theextant Northern Mansi language.(2020/21)   65%-75%   15%-35%
Northern Mansi is classified as Severely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Northern Mansi (ма̄ньси ла̄тыӈ,pronounced[maːnʲɕilaːtəŋ]^ⓘ) is the sole surviving member of theMansi languages, spoken inRussia in theKhanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug andSverdlovsk Oblast.

Northern Mansi has strongRussian,Komi,Nenets, andNorthern Khanty influence, and is the literary Mansi language. There is no accusative case; that is, both the nominative and accusative roles are unmarked on the noun.*/æ/ and*/æː/ have been backed to[a] and[aː].

This article focuses on the Severnaya Sosva dialect of Northern Mansi, considered theliterary language.

Dialects are named after the rivers their speakers originally lived next to. Mutual intelligibility between dialects can vary.

• Sosva/Severnaya Sosva (Next to theNorthern Sosva river)
• Sygva (Next to theSygva river)
• Upper Lozva (Next to the upper part of theLozva river)
• Ob (Near or next to theKhanty-Mansi part of theOb river, sub-dialectal differentiation toupper, middle, lower Ob dialect)

The main difference between dialects is phonetic, grammar is usually universal across the Northern Mansi, though vocabulary differences also occur.

Which could be considered theliterary dialect of Northern Mansi, has several differentiating features:

• Theinfinitive verb ending is,-ӈкве
• It usesсь for the[ɕ] sound in itswritten form.

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• If the [k] sound appears before [e] or [i], it turns into [tʲ], an example is two beingтит

It is the second most used dialect of Northern Mansi, after the Sosva dialect, its features consist of:^[2]

• Theinfinitive verb ending is,-ӈкв
• It usesщ for the[ɕ] sound in itswritten form.
• The[ɣ] sound changes to[j], in writing it is also changed fromг toй

They don't have an official written form inCyrillic writing, but their phonetic features include:

• The absence of the[kʷ] sound, subsidized with a[k] sound^[3][4]

• Sosva: "Ханисьтан хум ханисьтаӈкве ха̄сыс, ханисьтахтын ня̄врам ханисьтахтуӈкве ат таӈхыс." — "A teacher could teach, but a student couldn’t study."^[5]
• Upper Lozva: "А̄йирищум иӈ ма̄нь, но̄х-яныймаӈкв ат паты" - "My daughter is still small, she won't grow up."^[2]

The inventory presented here is a maximal collection of segments found across the Mansi varieties. Some remarks:

1. /ɕ/ is an allophone of /sʲ/.^[7]
2. The labialization contrast among the velars dates back to Proto-Mansi, but was in several varieties strengthened by labialization of velars adjacent to rounded vowels. In particular, Proto-Mansi *yK → Core Mansi *æKʷ (a form oftransphonologization).

Northern Mansi has a largely symmetric system of 8 vowels, though lacking short **/e/ and having a very rare long[iː]:

Remarks:

1. ы/и /i/ has a velar allophone [ɨ] beforeг /ɣ/ and afterх /x/.^[8]
2. Long [iː] occurs as a rare and archaic phonetic variant of /eː/, cf.э̄ти ~ӣти (‘in the evening, evenings’)^[9]
3. Long /eː/ and /oː/ can be pronounced as diphthongs [e͜ɛ] and [o͜ɔ].^[8]
4. у /u/ is found in unstressed (“non-first”) syllables beforeв /w/, in the infinitive suffix-ункве /uŋkʷe/ and in obscured compound words.^[8]
5. Reduced /ə/ becomes labialized [ə̹] or [ɞ̯] before bilabial consonantsм /m/ andп /p/.^[8]

The highlighted letters, and Г with the value/ɡ/, are used only in names andloanwords. The allophones /ɕ/ and /sʲ/ are written with the letter Щ or the digraph СЬ respectively.

Northern Mansi is anagglutinating,subject–object–verb (SOV) language.^[10]

One way to express a noun's definiteness in a sentence is with articles, and Northern Mansi uses two articles. The Indefinite is derived from the demonstrative pronominal wordань ('now'), the definite is derived from the numberаква/акв ('one');ань ('the'),акв ('a/an'). They both are used before the defined word. And if their adverbial and numeral meanings are to be expressed;ань always stands before the verb or a word with a similar function and is usually stressed,акв behaves the same and is always stressed.^[11]

It's worth noting that the Northern Mansi newspaper,Lūimā sēripos (Лӯима̄ сэ̄рипос), doesn't use the before-mentioned words as articles.

Definiteness (determination) can also be expressed by the third (less often second) person singular possession marker,^[12] or in case of direct objects, using transitive conjugation.^[13] E.g.а̄мп (’dog’) →а̄мпе (’his/her/its dog’, ’the dog’);ха̄п (’boat’) →ха̄п на̄лув-нарыгтас (’he/she pushed a boat in the water’) ≠ха̄п на̄лув-нарыгтастэ (’he/she pushed the boat in the water’).

There is no grammatical gender. Mansi distinguishes between singular,dual andplural number. Sixgrammatical cases exist. Possession is expressed usingpossessive suffixes, for example-ум, which means "my".

There are 5 ways the case suffix can change.

Missing cases can be expressed using postpositions, such asхалныл (χalnəl, 'of, out of'),саит (sait, 'after, behind'), etc.

Possession is expressed withpossessive suffixes, and the suffix change is determined by the last letter of a word.There are 5 ways that the suffixes can change:

Northern Mansi conjugation has three persons, three numbers, two tenses, and five moods. Active and passive voices exist.

There is no clear distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs.^[15]

The verb can conjugate in a Definite and Indefinite way which depends on if the sentence has an object, which the action depicted by the verb refers to directly.

Personal suffixes are attached after the verbal marker. The suffixes are the following:

Tenses are formed with suffixes except for thefuture.

The tense suffix precedes the personal suffix. The form of the present tense suffix depends on the character of the verbal stem, as well as moods. Tense conjugation is formed with the suffixes -эг,-э̄г, -и, -э, -э̄, -г, or -в.^[16] In the following examples, the tense suffix is in bold and the personal ending is in italic.

The present tense suffix -э̄г is used if the following personal marker contains a consonant or a highly reduced vowel; the suffix -эг is used if the following personal marker has a stronger vowel, as it is the case in 2nd person dual and plural. 1st person dual has no tense marker but rather aы between the verb stem and personal ending.

Verb stems that end in a vowel, have -г as verbal marker. Verb stems that end with the vowelу have -в as verbal marker.^[17]

3rd person dual has no personal ending. If the verbal stem ends in a vowel, the tense suffix becomes -ыг.

1st person plural personal ending is -в if the verbal stems ends in a consonant; the personal ending becomes -ув if the verbal stem ends in a vowel.

The past tense suffix if the verb stem is monosylabalic is-ыс- and if the verb is polysyllabic it is-ас-:

3rd person dual in past tense has a-ы̄г personal ending.

The 1st person plural personal suffix turns into-ув.

To represent the Future, the verbпатуӈкве(not dissimilar to Hungarian use of the verbfogni) is used as anauxiliary verb conjugated in the Present Indicative:

Verbs can conjugate two ways to show agreement with the sentence's object.

InIndefinite verb conjugations, no object is present. Any suffix does not represent it.

InDefinite verb conjugations there are three ways the verb can represent the direct object's number.

The singular object is expressed with the-ыл- suffix which changes depending on the mood and tense.

The dual object is expressed with the-ыяг- suffix which changes depending on the mood and tense.

The plural object is expressed with the-ыян- suffix which changes depending on the mood and tense.

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There are fourmoods:indicative,mirative,optative,imperative andconditional.

Indicative mood has no suffix. Imperative mood exists only in the second person. Optative and Imperative don't have tenses.

Is a mood presented in the present indefinite by the-не suffix and by the-но in definite.

In the past tense it is represented by the-ам suffix, both in indefinite and definite.

The mood is represented by the-нӯв and-нув suffixes, determined by the vowel in the next suffix.

It exists only in the second person, and in indefinite conjugation, it doesn't show any personal markers, and it is represented by the-эн and-э̄н suffixes.

Verbs have active and passive voice. Active voice has no suffix; the suffix to express the passive is-ве-.

Verbal prefixes are used to modify the meaning of the verb in both concrete and abstract ways.

э̄л – 'away'

юв – 'back'

хот – 'direction away from something and other nuances of action intensity'

The vocabulary of the Mansi languages is distinguished by a fairly large number of forms for denoting concepts related to hunting, reindeer husbandry, fishing(the main traditional occupations of the Mansi). For example, there are about seven words are used to define different types of swamps. At the same time, the language almost lacks its socio-political vocabulary. To denote such concepts that appeared in the life of Mansi in the 20th century; compounding, derivation (rarely affixation), and or borrowings were used. For example,"hospital" can be described by a borrowingпӯльница and derivationпусмалтан кол literally"medicinal/curative house".

Words from extinct dialects could also be revitalized in the literary language^{[citation needed]}

Northern Mansi differentiates between relatives based on from which side of the family they came from and also their relative age, for example:^[18]

Siblings are similarly differentiated to Hungarian and other Uralic languages:

Numbers 1 and 2 also have attributive forms:акв (1) andкит (2); compare withHungariankét, Old Hungariankit).

Theма̄нь andяныг before 7 and 100 are there to differentiate between the two if both are in the same number or sentence; meaning small and big respectively.

The Mansi numbering system is different in this range than after twenty.

Here, you form a number with the wordхуйп (above, more than);

Therefore,аквхуйплов means"one over/above ten", in a similar way to other Uralic languages.

Numbering in this range uses the wordнупыл (towards);

Therefore, ва̄т нупыл аква means "Towards thirty with one".

Exepction can be found in the Ob dialects, where the postposition of нупыл isn't used;^[19]

Above 89, the postposition of нупыл isn't used;^[20]

You just add the number after the biggest number;

In the Ob dialect, the word denoting the number that counts approaches is suffixed with the -н, similarly when counting from 21 to 89.^[21]

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Since 1989, theLūimā sēripos ("Northern dawn") newspaper has been the only and most prominent Mansi media. As of 2024"Listen to articles", most articles on thesite of the news agency, have their authors read the articles out loud, so people can not just read the news in their native language but listen to it as well. This initiative was taken as the UN declared 2022-2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

"Scholars and linguists believe that the Khanty and Mansi languages are dying; we, in turn, are making attempts to preserve and promote our native languages. Thus, to learn languages, it will be convenient and interesting to listen to the live speech of native speakers"

saidГалина Кондина (Galina Kondina) the head editor of the newsagency.^[22]

The Gospel of Mark in Northern Mansi is available online onFinugorbib site,audio recordings can also be found

Article 1 of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights in Northern Mansi:

Ма̄ янытыл о̄лнэ мир пуссын аквхольт самын патэ̄гыт, аквте̄м вос о̄лэ̄гыт, аквте̄м нё̄тмил вос кинсэ̄гыт. Та̄н пуӈк о̄ньщēгыт, номсуӈкве ве̄рме̄гыт, э̄сырма о̄ньщэ̄гыт, халанылт ягпыгыӈыщ-яга̄гиӈыщ вос о̄лэ̄гыт.^[23]ⓘ

Mā ânytyl ōlnè mir pussyn akvholʹt samyn patè̄gyt, akvtēm vos ōlè̄gyt, akvtēm në̄tmil vos kinsè̄gyt. Tān puňk ōnʹsēgyt, nomsuňkve vērmēgyt, è̄syrma ōnʹsʹè̄gyt, halanylt âgpygyňysʹ-âgāgiňysʹ vos ōlè̄gyt.

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 Northern Mansi:

Соссаӈ мирыт, акв хо̄тпа манос са̄в хо̄тпа пуссын аквъёт, сакконыт щирыл тэ̄ланыл та̄нти ва̄руӈкве ве̄рмияныл, та̄наныл вуянтан сакконыт Ма̄ янытыл о̄лнэ мирыт Акван-потыртахтам Мирколаныл Устав нэ̄пакт, Ма̄ янытыл о̄лнэ мир ма̄гыс хансым ма̄к потрыт ос мирхал сакконыт палт хансым о̄лэ̄гыт.^[24]

Sossaň miryt, akv hōtpa manos sāv hōtpa pussyn akvʺët, sakkonyt siryl tè̄lanyl tānti vāruňkve vērmiânyl, tānanyl vuântan sakkonyt Mā ânytyl ōlnè miryt Akvan-potyrtahtam Mirkolanyl Ustav nè̄pakt, Mā ânytyl ōlnè mir māgys hansym māk potryt os mirhal sakkonyt palt hansym ōlè̄gyt.

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.

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