Southern Mansi language
| Southern Mansi | |
|---|---|
| Tavda Mansi | |
| mäńši~mäˈnči ľė̄χ~ľäχ~ľäŋ | |
| Pronunciation | [mæɲʃi~mæ̍nt͡ʃi ľėːχ~lʲæχ~lʲæŋ] |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
| Extinct | 1960s |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | sout3253 |
Traditional distribution and current Mansi settlements | |
Southern Mansi is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010) | |
Southern or Tavda Mansi is an extinct Uralic language spoken in Russia in the Sverdlovsk Oblast. Its main records come from an area isolated from the other Mansi varieties along the river Tavda. Around 1900, about 200 speakers existed, but in the 1960s, it was spoken only by a few elderly speakers. It has since then become extinct. It had strong Tatar lexical influence and displayed several archaisms such as vowel harmony, retention of /æː/ (elsewhere backed to /aː/ or diphthongized), /ɑː/ (elsewhere raised to /oː/) and /tsʲ/ (elsewhere deaffricated to /sʲ/).
Russian researchers use the term "southern dialect" (Russian: южный диалект) to describe the Tavda language.