Khantyn.

1947 G. 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.

1965 C. Simpson This is Russia i. 7 In Siberia..there were hunting-and-fishing peoples in the north called Nentsi, Khanty, Evenki, Chukchi and Koryaks.

1983 L. 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.

1972 E. 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.

1980 Amer. Notes & Queries 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.

1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 107 Research on Khanty, a Ural-Altaic language also called Ostyak..spoken along the Ob river in north-western Siberia, has had a long history.