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Khanty

Uralic family of languages spoken in Russia
Language language_family Q33563
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Summary

Khanty is a language family[1]. Khanty draws 1,571 Wikipedia views per month (language family category, ranking #115 of 1,012).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Russia[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4], language[5]
  • Subclass of: Ob-Ugric[6]
  • Writing system: Khanty alphabets[7], Cyrillic script[8]
  • Commons category: Khanty language[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Khanty language[10]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 9584[11], 9230[12]
  • Indigenous to: Khanty people[13], Nenets Autonomous Okrug[14], Omsk Oblast[15], Tomsk Oblast[16], Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug[17], Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug[18]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KCA[19]
  • Ethnologue language status: 6b Threatened[20]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[21], agglutinative language[22]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Khanty-language films[23]

Why It Matters

Khanty has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Khanty is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Russia

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . gks.ru. gks.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . 2021 Russian census. rosstat.gov.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for films in this language → Category:Khanty-language films
    Country → —
    Endangeredlanguages.com id → ['8552', '8550', '8551']
    Subclass of → Ob-Ugric
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 12146, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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