Northern Khanty
Facts
- Language: Northern Khanty
- Alternate names: Northern Khant, Ostyak, северно-хантыйский язык, хӑнты ясӑң, khănty yasăŋ, Northern Khante, Ostyak, Ostiak, Ugrian Ostyak
- Language code: 1of
- Language family:
Uralic; Khanty
(SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: ~10,000
- Vulnerability: Threatened
- Script:
More information:
Though often considered to be a single language, Khanty is actually a group of three mutually unintelligible conglomerations of dialects that may well be counted as separate languages. A particularly close areal and typological affinity exists between Northern Khanty and Northern Mansi.