Mansi languages

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Mansi
Vogul, Mansic
Geographic distribution	Khanty–Mansi, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen
Ethnicity	Mansi
Native speakers	2,200 (2021)
Linguistic classification	Uralic Finno-Ugric? Ugric? Ob-Ugric? Mansi
Subdivisions	Southern † Core   • Northern   • Central †     • Eastern †     • Western †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mns
Glottolog	mans1269
Khanty and Mansi languages at the beginning of the 20th century[1][2]

The Mansi languages are spoken by the Mansi people in Siberia, Russia along the Ob River and its tributaries, in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and Sverdlovsk Oblast. Traditionally considered a single language, they constitute a branch of the Ugric languages, within the broader Uralic language family. They are often considered most closely related to neighbouring Khanty and then to Hungarian.^{[citation needed]}

The base dialect of the Mansi literary language is the Sosva dialect, a representative of the northern language. Fixed word order is typical in Mansi. Adverbials and participles play an important role in sentence construction.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2020–2021 census, 2229 people claimed to speak Mansi natively.^[3] All current speakers use Northern Mansi, as the other variants have become extinct.^[4]