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Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements[4][5]
Eastern Mansi is classified as Extinct according to The Uralic Languages (2023)[3]
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Eastern or Konda Mansi is an extinct member of the Mansi languages, and was spoken in Russia in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug around the river Konda. It became extinct in 2018, when its last speaker Maksim Shivtorov (Максим Семенович Шивторов) died.[3] It has Khanty and Siberian Tatar influence. There is vowel harmony, and for */æː/ it has [œː], frequently diphthongized.
In Russian linguistics, the Konda dialect used to be called the "southern Mansi (Kondinsky) dialect" (Russian: южно-мансийский (кондинский) диалект[6]) or "eastern Mansi dialect group" (Russian: восточная группа диалектов).[7]
Alphabet
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Main article: Mansi alphabets
In the few instances that Eastern Mansi literature was printed and was from the native areas, it used an unchanged Russian-Cyrillic script like this:
The highlighted letters are found in loanwords, except нг which represents a single nasal consonant[1][better source needed] and г is substituted with the letter й in some dialects [citation needed]
(KM=Present in Middle Konda | KU=Present in Lower Konda | K=Present in both)
Some remarks:
Only present in palatal environments.
It has the allophone /iː/.
Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do these appear in non-initial syllable positions.
Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do /aː/ appear in first syllable positions.
Diphthongs
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In Middle Konda, the diphthongs are /øæ/ or /øæ̯/ and /oɒ/ found in both first and non-initial syllable positions.
In Lower Konda, the /æø/ diphthong is usually realized as [œ] which is only found in first syllable positions, while /øæ/ is found in both first and non-initial syllable positions.
^ abКузакова, Евдокия Александровна, Мансийско-русский словарь. Кондинский диалект мансийского языка [Kuzakova, Evdokiya Aleksandrovna, Mansi-Russian dictionary (Kondinsky dialect of the Mansi language)], Based on the story by P. K. Cheymetov “Ворыяп хумый” (“Two Hunters”) page 36
^Dictionary of Yukonda [ru] dialect of Mansi, Lingvodoc 3.0 [1]
^ abcSalminen, 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. 102. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
^ abOb-Ugric database of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany; Phonology of Eastern Mansi [2]
Sources
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Ромбандеева, Е. И. (1976). "Мансийский язык". Основы финно-угорского языкознания. Марийский, пермский и угорские языки (in Russian). Москва: Наука. pp. 229–239.