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The Mansi (Mansi: Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум, Māńsi / Māńsi māhum, IPA: [ˈmaːnʲsʲi, ˈmaːnʲsʲi ˈmaːxʊm]) are an Ob-Ugric Indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages have co-official status with Russian.
- 12,228 (2021)
- 43 (2001)
Khanty and Mansi, western Siberian peoples, living mainly in the Ob River basin of central Russia. They each speak an Ob-Ugric language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages. Together they numbered some 30,000 in the late 20th century. They are descended from people from the south Ural.
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Jun 11, 2018 · Mansi ETHNONYM: Voguls Orientation Identification. The Mansi, known in older literature as the "Voguls," are one of two Ugrian peoples who live in northwestern Siberia [1], just east of the Urals in the lowlands crossed by a number of rivers, many of which are tributaries of the Ob.
Mansi, western Siberian peoples, living mainly in the Ob River basin of central Russia. They each speak an Ob-Ugric language of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages. Together they numbered some 30,000 in the late 20th century. They are descended from people from the…. Read More.
Profile. According to the 2010 national census, there are 30,943 Khants and 12,269 Mansi in the Russian Federation. Khants are culturally and linguistically close to the Mansi. Khants and Mansi together make up the Ob-Ugrian branch of the Ugrian division of the Uralo-Altaic language family. They are mainly shamanist-animists.
The religion of the Mansi and Khanty is identical: Within one and the same macrogroup the same supernatural beings are revered regardless of which people's territory they are affiliated with. Mansi and Khanty folklore, too, is uniform on a nearly word for word basis.
Dec 6, 2015 · Mansi did not share the Late Upper Palaeolithic Caucasus HG ancestry with the Yamnaya people (Supplemental Fig. S25), suggesting that it is unlikely that Mansi have descended from the Yamnaya people. Therefore, Siberian admixtures into Northeastern Europe likely began prior to 6.6 kya, coinciding with the expansion of Y-Chromosome haplogroup ...
