Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Mansi en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/ˈmænsi/
/ˈmɑːnsi/
Etymology
Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).
Meanings
A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug.
A small Mansi population has also lived up to the present day on the western slopes of the Ural mountains. 2022, Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, Elena Skribnik, The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages:
The Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
The languages of the other three branches – Mansi, Khanty and Samoyed – are or were spoken in Siberia, but the area of Tundra Nenets in the Samoyed branch extends to the west of the Ural mountains, and the area of Southern Mansi also originally covered parts of Europe. 2010, Christopher Moseley, editor, Atlas of the world's languages in danger: