The place of “Southwestern” Khanty among the Khanty dialects: the testimony of phonology and morphology

• Published in: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
• Main Author: László Fejes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Estonian
• Published: University of Tartu Press 2023
• Subjects: Khanty; dialectology; isoglosses; phonology; morphology; handi keel; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Finnic. Baltic-Finnic; PH91-98.5; Selle; khanty
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2023.14.3.02; https://doaj.org/article/6640a3cc5c4e4ea684ed7e3626fc4813

Southwestern Khanty is a dialect documented only in the 2008 PhD dissertation by Olga Vaysman. A previous study based on lexical data established that South­western Khanty is very close to Obdorsk Khanty. The current study explores the dia­lect’s phonological and morphological features. Although som...