Mansi language

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Mansi language, also known as Vogul language (obsolete), is a language of the Mansi people. It is spoken in Khantia-Mansia, along the Ob River and its tributaries, and parts of Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia. According to the 1970 census, there were some 4,000 Mansi-speaking people in Russia.

The Mansi language belongs to the Ob Ugric (Ob Ugrian) subfamily of the Finno-Ugric languages. It is subdivided into a number of dialects, which differ from each other significantly. The base dialect of the Mansi literary language is the Sosva dialect. Fixed order of words is typical for the Mansi language. Adverbials and participles play an important role in sentence construction. The Mansi written language was created in the 1930s on the basis of the Russian alphabet.