Mansiadj.n.

1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire viii. 97 The Mansi or Vogul area..coincides pretty closely with the ridge of the northern Ural.

1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 107 It is because of this [geographical] closeness that the Mansi and Khanty dialects have so many common features.

1736 tr. P. J. von Strahlenberg Histori-geogr. Descr. N. & E. Europe & Asia Harmonia col. 4 Wogluwitzi, who call themselves Mantschi, and live in the province of Ugoria, in Siberia.

1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia I. 157 These people are sometimes called Vagouls and Vogoulitzes; but the appellation they give themselves is Mansi.]

1859 R. G. Latham Descriptive Ethnol. I. xxiv. 459 The Mansi, or Voguls, ruder than the populations to the west of them, are..on a level with Kondicho and Samoyeds.

1914 M. A. Czaplicka Aboriginal Siberia ii. 19 The Vogul (called also Maniza or Suomi), between the middle of Ob, from Berezov to Tobolsk, and the Ural Mountains. They number 7,476.

1993 Herald (Glasgow) 26 Apr. 13/1 We were told that the Yakuts had come to the referendum polling stations in larger numbers than the Khantis or the Mansis.

1951 W. K. Matthews Langs. U.S.S.R. iii. 22 Vogul (Mansi) closely resembles both Ostyak and Hungarian.

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.

1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 661/2 Ugric languages now consist of Khanty and Mansi, still spoken east of the Urals, and Hungarian, whose speakers finally settled in central Europe after centuries of migration.