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Northern Mansi

Northern Mansi (ма̄ньси ла̄тыӈ, pronounced [maːnʲɕi laːtəŋ] ) is the sole surviving member of the Mansi languages, spoken in Russia in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Northern Mansi has strong Russian, Komi, Nenets, and Northern Khanty influence, and is the literary Mansi language. There is no accusative case; that is, both the nominative and accusative roles are unmarked on the noun. */æ/ and */æː/ have been backed to [a] and [aː].

This article focuses on the Severnaya Sosva dialect of Northern Mansi, considered the literary language.

Dialects are named after the rivers their speakers originally lived next to. Mutual intelligibility between dialects can vary.

The main difference between dialects is phonetic, grammar is usually universal across the Northern Mansi, though vocabulary differences also occur.

Which could be considered the literary dialect of Northern Mansi, has several differentiating features:

It is the second most used dialect of Northern Mansi, after the Sosva dialect, its features consist of:

They don't have an official written form in Cyrillic writing, but their phonetic features include:

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