Structure of language is determined by the structure of the human mind, the universality of certain properties characteristic of language is evidence that at least this part of human nature is common to all members of the species, regardless of their race or class and their undoubted differences in intellect, personality and physical attributes
All languages are intimately interlinked with the culture of their speakers, and all languages and cultures represent specific expressions of human thought and social organisation.
Khanty being one of the biggest and complex ethnic groups of the North Western Siberia generally preserved their total population number: 1926 - 22306 pers., 1950 - 19410 pers., 1970 - 21138 pers., 1979 - 20934 pers., 1989 - 22521 pers., thus natural growth of the population was either absent or compensated by assimilation processes.
The Khantylanguage is known to have a large number of dialects.
Khantyliterary works are usually written with the use of three dialects, such as the Kazym, Shuryshkar, and middle-Ob dialects.
In an ergative construction, the object is given the same case as the subject of an intransitive verb, and the locative is used for the agent of the transitive verb (as an instrumental).
Komi language is included into the Finno-Ugric language family and forms a Permic group of the Finno-Ugric languages with the Udmurt language, which is the closest to Komi.
The scripture in Khanty appeared in the thirties of XX century, but the dialects of the Khantylanguage are so different, that the intelligibility between the representatives of the different dialects is often difficult.
In 1918 the Syktyvkar dialect was chosen as a base for the Komi literarylanguage, because it was the central dialect among the Komi ones geographically and linguistically.
Mysteries of the Golden Woman of Ugra - by Paul Stonehill(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This was the language of Khanty and Mansi ancestors.
Hungarian language is classified as a member of the Ugric branch of the Uralic languages; and as such it is most closely related to the Ob-Ugric languages, Khanty and Mansi.
Mansilanguage belongs to the Ob-Ugric sub-group of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages.
In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansilanguages are given co-official status with Russian.
The Khanty are one of the few indigenous minorities in Siberia with an autonomy in the form of an okrug (autonomous district).
The Khantylanguage is a language belonging to the Ugric branch of the Uralic languages, consisting of ten dialects, divided into southern, northern and eastern subgroups, and closely related to the Mansilanguage.
Khanty outrage at the forced relocation of numerous villages and the destruction of much of their environment by the energy industry has been expressed throughout the 1990s, beyond their tentative cries of anguish in 1986-89.
Khanty like to shoot at energy prospectors, and it has gotten quite dangerous to venture into the woods of the Eastern Khanty Surgut region." He concluded, "Let the few pitiful Khanty who are left on this earth live in town.
Khanty individuals have long been nurturers of a valued yet changing culture and reshapers of outside messages, as their nineteenth-century revitalization movements testify and their current responses to educational, political, and economic developments reveal.
Bardak, a Khanty prince, is known to have helped the Russians build the fortress of Surgut (Istoriya II 1968: 34), and the Khanty prince of Kod, Igichei Alychev, helped the Russians defeat the Pelym Mansi on the Tavda in 1594 (Skachko 1931: 67).
Khanty literal language fixation was characterised by permanent hesitations: this is well illustrated by a small reform of Latin alphabet that took place in 1936 and was inspired by Steinitz: new letters were introduced and others eliminated (Steinitz 1950: 25).
During this period, the Russian language is admired and praised with hyperbole; the flood of loan-words in all the languages are evidence of its expansion, and the use of its alphabet confirms this symbolically.
ODIN results for language Khanty (KCA)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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Ice-Floe: Contributors U - Z(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pathfinder, a Sami language film which he co-wrote and acted in, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1998.
Vaalgyrgyn was born in 1939 in Uelkal, a village on the Chukchi Sea.
Viktor Yershov is a contemporary writer of literature of the Veps, a small group in far northwest Russia whose language is part of the Finno-Ugric family.
(e) degree of speakers' competence: used as the community language at the oral level by all speakers, with Modern Written Mongolian as the literarylanguage; grammatical and lexical interference from the latter is occasionally present in the speech of educated individuals
(a) children speakers and (b) mean age of youngest speakers: still learnt consistently as the home language, in the one or the other of the two dialectal varieties, by approx.
(ii) published material (of the language): very scarce, the principal sources being connected with an attempt at creating a written standard (in Roman script) for the language in the early 1930s; the written language was liquidated after 1937, however, and recent plans to revigorate it seem to have to come too late
