The linguistic portrait of Vach-Vasjugan Khanty: researchers, materials, methods

• Published in: Linguistica Uralica
• Main Authors: Vorobeva, Victoria V., Novitskaya, Irina V., Dubrovskaya, Natalia V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: васюганские ханты; восточные ханты; khanty
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3176/lu.2021.2.04; https://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/koha:000896287

The aim of this study is to survey language materials and scientific works on the Vach-Vasjugan group of Eastern Khanty with a view to their systematic presentation. This overview draws on a vast body of language data and scientific works written by linguists from Russia, Hungary, Finland and Germany among others. These materials include both published and unpublished works, for example, the archive data kept in the Laboratory of Siberian Indigenous Languages named after A. P. Dulson at Tomsk State Pedagogical University, the Research Library at Tomsk State University and fieldwork data of one of the authors. An extensive body of research on the Vach-Vasjugan group of Eastern Khanty covers a continuous and more-than-a-century long period. Numerous studies conducted by an international cohort of researchers over this timespan have all contributed to gaining new insights into distinctive features of the varieties in question. The focus in this article is on the history of research on Eastern Khanty, covering the period between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the present. It enables us to survey the Khanty materials produced in the course of research and to develop common strategies in presenting findings.