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

Information about Khanty pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel

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

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

Related languages

Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, Khanty, Komi, Livonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Saami, Udmurt, Võro, Votic

Other languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet