RE: Khanty -- Cyrillic

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 18:16:40 CDT

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    Patrick,

    My informant offers the follwing:

    >Khanty-Obskii -> Ob Khanty [Khanty of the Ob region] ?
    >Yes.
    >
    >Khanty-Surgut --> ??
    >see below
    >Khanty-Vahovskii --> is this the Vach variety ?
    >Yes.
    >Khanty-Kazymskii --> ??
    >Khanty-Shurysharskii --> ??
    >
    >Here is my overview:
    >Northern Khanty (Muzhi and Synja dialect)
    >Northern Khanty (Scherkal dialect)
    >Northern Khanty (Kazym dialect)
    >Northern Khanty (Shuriskar dialect)
    >
    >Eastern Khanty (Vach - Vasjugan dialect)
    >Eastern Khanty (Salym dialect)
    >Eastern Khanty (Surgut dialect)
    >
    >Southern Khanty (Chucheliny dialect)
    >
    >I'm rather suprised by this long list in fact since the Ethnologue
    >identifies only four dialects: Northern Khanti, Eastern Khanti,
    >Southern Khanti, Vach (Vasyugan). Vach being the "archaic" dialect...
    >
    >It is hard to count dialects and dialect groups.
    >
    >My full list, with the abbreviations used in uralistics:
    >Eastern Khanty Jugan haE J
    > haE P
    > Vach haE V
    > Vasjugan haE Vj
    > Tremjugan haE Trj
    >Northern Khanty Kazym haN Kaz
    > haN Ni
    > Shuriskar haN Shur
    > Ob haN O
    >Mu?i Synja haN Syn
    >Southern Khanty Sherkal haS Sher
    > haS DN
    > haS DT
    > Konda haS Ko
    > haS Kr
    >
    >Hmm, I didn't have all ab breviations explained in my list. 

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