1. Family: Uralic
  2. Subfamily: Finno-Ugric
  3. Genus: Ugric

Khanty

WALS coordinates: 65° N, 65° E

spoken in Russia

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Xanty
Routledge:
  • Khanty (Ostyak)
Other:
  • Ostyak,
  • Xanty,
  • Khanty (Obdorsk),
  • Khanty (Northern),
  • Ostjak,
  • Ostyak (Northern)
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No initial velar nasal Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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26A Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing Morphology
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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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36A The Associative Plural Associative same as additive plural Nominal Categories
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46A Indefinite Pronouns Interrogative-based Nominal Categories
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49A Number of Cases 3 cases Nominal Categories
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50A Asymmetrical Case-Marking Additive-quantitatively asymmetrical Nominal Categories
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, second, three-th Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by suffix Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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63A Noun Phrase Conjunction 'And' different from 'with' Nominal Syntax
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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71A The Prohibitive Normal imperative + special negative Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Other Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses Relative clause-Noun (RelN) dominant Word Order
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91A Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Not initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun OV and RelN Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and AdjN Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Mixed Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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115A Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation Predicate negation also present Simple Clauses
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117A Predicative Possession 'Have' Simple Clauses
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118A Predicative Adjectives Nonverbal encoding Simple Clauses
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119A Nominal and Locational Predication Identical Simple Clauses
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120A Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals Possible Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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131A Numeral Bases Decimal Lexicon
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142A Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Other or none Other
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb SONegV Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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144L The Position of Negative Morphemes in SOV Languages SONegV Word Order
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144P NegSOV Order No NegSOV Word Order
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144Q SNegOV Order No SNegOV Word Order
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144R SONegV Order Word&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144S SOVNeg Order NoSOVNeg Word Order
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