Mansi

//ˈmænsi// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    the Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Vogul wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
mansi languagevogulvogulvogulvogul language

Example

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"The closest relatives of Hungarian are Mansi and Khanti."

Etymology

Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).

Related phrases

finno ugrickhantia mansia

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