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Western Mansi language

Extinct Uralic language

Western Mansi
маньсь льӓх, моаньсь лаатых
Pronunciation	[manʲsʲ lʲæx], [moɒ̯nʲsʲ laːtəx]
Native to	Russia
Region	Sverdlovsk
Extinct	late 20th century
Language family	Uralic Ugric? Ob-Ugric? Mansi Western Mansi
Dialects	Pelym North Vagil South Vagil Lover Lozva Middle Lozva
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`west2976`
ELP	Western Mansi
Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements^[1]^[2]
Western Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)
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Western Mansi was described as "probably extinct" in 1988. Although the last speaker is not known, none were left by the end of the 20th century.^[3] It had strong Russian and Komi influences; dialect differences were also considerable.^[4] Long vowels were diphthongized.

References

^ Rantanen, Timo; Tolvanen, Harri; Roose, Meeli; Ylikoski, Jussi; Vesakoski, Outi (2022-06-08). "Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation—A case study of Uralic". PLOS ONE. 17 (6): e0269648. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1769648R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269648. PMC 9176854. PMID 35675367.
^ Rantanen, Timo, Vesakoski, Outi, Ylikoski, Jussi, & Tolvanen, Harri. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188
^ Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 101-102. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
^ Kálmán 1965, pp. 4–5. sfn error: no target: CITEREFKálmán1965 (help)