Mansi people
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The Mansi (Mansi: Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум,[4] Māńsi / Māńsi māhum, IPA: [ˈmaːnʲsʲi, ˈmaːnʲsʲi ˈmaːxʊm]) are an Ob-Ugric Indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages have co-official status with Russian. The Mansi language is one of the postulated Ugric languages of the Uralic family. The Mansi people were formerly known as the Voguls.[5]
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Total population | |
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12,300 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia) | |
Russia | 12,228 (2021)[1][2] |
Ukraine | 43 (2001)[3] |
Languages | |
Mansi, Russian | |
Religion | |
Shamanism, Russian Orthodoxy | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Khanty |
Together with the Khanty people, the Mansi are politically represented by the Association to Save Yugra, an organisation founded during Perestroika of the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first regional indigenous associations in Russia.