Mansi
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Mansi
- /ˈmænsi/
- /ˈmɑːnsi/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Northern Mansi Ма̄ньси (Mānʹsi).
noun Mansis · Mansi
- A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug. A small Mansi population has also lived up to the present day on the western slopes of the Ural mountains.
proper noun
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The Uralic language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.
The languages of the other three branches – Mansi, Khanty and Samoyed – are or were spoken in Siberia, but the area of Tundra Nenets in the Samoyed branch extends to the west of the Ural mountains, and the area of Southern Mansi also originally covered parts of Europe.
Similar: Vogul
Translations
Every language
name Uralic language
| 中文 | 曼西語 /曼西语 |
|---|---|
| Русский | манси́йский mansíjskij, вогу́льский vogúlʹskij |
Talk about this word "Mansi." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mansi. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Mansi. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mansi "Mansi." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mansi.Cite this
@misc{mansi_2026,
title = {Mansi},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mansi},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
