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Khanty, n.|ˈkæntɪ|
Also Khanti.
[a. Russ. Khantȳ, f. Khanty Xanti.]
a. A Finno-Ugric people living in the Ob River basin in western Siberia (= Ostyak n.).
b. The Ob-Ugrian language of this people.
1947G. B. D. Gray Soviet Land ii. v. 81 On either side of the Northern Urals there are the Nyentsi..; the Khanti (or Ostyak); and the Komi. 1965C. Simpson This is Russia i. 7 In Siberia..there were hunting-and-fishing peoples in the north called Nentsi, Khanty, Evenki, Chukchi and Koryaks. 1972E. G. Lewis Multilingualism in Soviet Union ii. 38 There are several indigenous Ugrian languages in the Soviet Union, some of which like Ostyak (Khanti) and Vogul (Mansi) spoken around Omsk in Western Siberia are the languages of fishing, herding, and hunting tribesmen. 1980Amer. N. & Q. Oct. 29/1 Marianne Sz. Bakró-Nagy..has pulled together some 500 terms..on the bear as a tabu animal in the Urals among the Ostyak (Khanty) and Vogul (Mansi) speaking peoples. 1983L. Symons Soviet Union vi. 91/2 To the east of the Urals, the west Siberian lowland..is thinly occupied by the Khanty (21000), Mansi (7700) and other small Finno-Ugrian tribes. 1985Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXX. 107 Research on Khanty, a Ural-Altaic language also called Ostyak..spoken along the Ob river in north-western Siberia, has had a long history. |