Mansi
Uralic language spoken in Russia
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Summary
Mansi is a natural language[1]. Mansi draws 1,830 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #185 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russia[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Ob-Ugric[5]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[6], Mansi alphabet[7]
- Commons category: Mansi language[8]
- Said to be the same as: Wogoels[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mansi language[10]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 938[11]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12]
- Indigenous to: North Ossetia–Alania[13], Sverdlovsk Oblast[14], Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug[15], Tyumen Oblast[16]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MNS[17]
- Has grammatical case: locative case[18], ablative case[19], instrumental case[20], translative case[21], approximative[22]
- Has tense: present[23], past tense[24]
- Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[25]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[26], agglutinative language[27]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[28], WikiProject Russia[29]
Why It Matters
Mansi has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Mansi is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]