Khanty
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- proper noun
- The Khanty people have a rich cultural heritage that includes traditional music and dance.
- Khanty and Mansi
Examples
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PHOTO (COLOR): Khanty shaman and hunter Pyotr Yukhlymov carries his ceremonial hoop tied with spirit dolls.
Academic text (1993) -
A few hundred years ago, the Khanty and Mansi, then known as Ostyaks and Voguls, had ranged into western Russia, but more aggressive tribes drove them back across the Urals into Asia.
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Flying time from Moscow to Khanty-Mansiysk will be 3 hours and 10 minutes.
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This year, for example, the organizers of the Khanty-Mansiysk games presented us with $900,000.
Blog text (19) -
"Each time I come home to this land of the Mansi and the Khanty," he added, "I feel a mysterious power coursing through my veins."
Academic text (1993) -
ANNOUNCER :Coming to you live from Khanty-Mansiysk, in Russia where we are presenting our Chess Olympiad game.
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"We had just landed at the airport in northwest Siberia's Khanty-Mansi National District, an oil-rich territory the size of France.
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When Yuvan was notified that a bear had been killed near the taiga village of Sosvinskaya and that a bear fest would soon follow, we boarded the first plane to the Khanty-Mansi region.
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Khanty and Mansi have social-kin groups known as the Por, whose ancestors received fire and weapons from the legendary Konsyg-Oik (Old Clawed One), the world's first bear.
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Many Khanty families rely on reindeer herding as their primary source of livelihood.
Synonyms
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A person from a nomadic group in northwestern Siberia east of the Ural Mountains
Compounds
A language spoken by the Khanty people in western Siberia, related to Hungarian and Mansi
Surface Forms
Etymology
Khanty is the name the people use for themselves and likely comes from an old word meaning 'person' or 'people'. So a Khanty is simply a member of that indigenous group in northwestern Siberia east of the Ural Mountains.