Eastern Mansi

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.^[4] It has Khanty and Siberian Tatar influence. There is vowel harmony, and for */æː/ it has [œː], frequently diphthongized.

Eastern Mansi
маньсь лынгх[1] маньсь нялм[2][failed verification] маньсь не̄лм ляӈх / лях ма̊̄ньщха̊р не̄лм ляӈх [3]
Pronunciation	[mɒnʲsʲ lʲɘŋx], [mɒnʲsʲ nʲæləm] ⓘ
Native to	Russia
Region	Khanty–Mansi
Extinct	2018, with the death of Maksim Šivtorov[4]
Language family	Uralic Finno-Ugric? Ugric? Ob-Ugric? Mansi Core Central Eastern Mansi
Dialects	Konda (Middle/Lower/Upper) Yukonda
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	east2879
ELP	Eastern Mansi
Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements[5][6]
Eastern Mansi is classified as Extinct according to The Uralic Languages (2023)[4]
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In Russian linguistics, the Konda dialect used to be called the "southern Mansi (Kondinsky) dialect" (Russian: южно-мансийский (кондинский) диалект^[7]) or "eastern Mansi dialect group" (Russian: восточная группа диалектов).^[8]

Dialects

• Lower Konda Mansi
• Middle Konda Mansi
• Upper Konda Mansi
• Jukonda Mansi

Phonology

Vowels

Eastern Mansi vowels^[9]

	Front		Central	Back
	unrounded	rounded
Close	i K 1 (и, ӣ, ы, ы̄)	y, yː K 3 (ӱ, ӱ̄)		u, uː K 3 (у, ӯ) (ю, ю̄)
Close-mid			ɘ, ɘː KM (ә, ә̄)	o, oː K 3 (о, о̄) (ё, ё̄)
Mid	e ~ i eːK 2 3 (э, э̄) (е, е̄)	ø K (ӧ)	(ə) K (ы)
Near-open	æ, æː K (ӓ, ӓ̄)
Open	a, aː K 4 (а, а̄) (я, я̄)			ɒ ~ ɑ K (а̊ , а̊̄)

(KM=Present in Middle Konda | KU=Present in Lower Konda | K=Present in both)

Some remarks:

1. Only present in palatal environments.
2. It has the allophone /iː/.
3. Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do these appear in non-initial syllable positions.
4. Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do /aː/ appear in first syllable positions.

Alphabet

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] and г is substituted with the letter й in some dialects.^{[citation needed]}

А а	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д	Е е	Ё ё
Ж ж	З з	И и	Й й	К к	Л л	М м
Н н	Нг нг	О о	П п	Р р	С с	Т т
У у	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч	Ш ш	Щ щ
Ъ ъ	Ы ы	Ь ь	Э э	Ю ю	Я я

The Yukonda dialect had a specialized alphabet, found in E. A. Kuzakova's book: ^[3]

А а	А̄ а̄	Ӓ ӓ	Ӓ̄ ӓ̄	А̊ а̊	А̊̄ а̊̄	Б б	В в	Г г	Д д
Е е	Е̄ е̄	Ё ё	Ё̄ ё̄	Ж ж	З з	И и	Ӣ ӣ	Й й	К к
Л л	Л̆ л̆	М м	Н н	Ӈ ӈ	О о	О̄ о̄	Ӧ ӧ	П п	Р р
С с	Т т	У у	Ӯ ӯ	Ӱ ӱ	У̊ у̊	Ф ф	Х х	Ц ц	Ч ч
Ш ш	Щ щ	ъ	ы	ь	Э э	Э̄ э̄	Ю ю	Ю̄ ю̄	Я я
Я̄ я̄
(Ю̈ ю̈	Ю̈̄ ю̈̄	Ю̊ ю̊	Я̈ я̈	Я̈̄ я̈̄	Я̊ я̊	Я̊̄ я̊̄)

Notes