Khanty people
Also known as Khanty, Ostyaks, Khanti, Khande, Kantek
thumb|200px|right|Khanty family standing in front of a chum (tent)|chum, their traditional tent thumb|200px|Most Khanty people live in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug in western [[Siberia]] The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census, 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in
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The Khanty are an Indigenous people of western Siberia, primarily living in Russia's Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, where their language holds co-official status alongside Russian. With approximately 31,467 people identified as Khanty in the 2021 Census, they represent a distinct Ugric cultural and linguistic group whose traditional way of life, including practices like living in chum (traditional tents), reflects their historical presence in the region known as Yugra.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Khanty
- Ethnic group.image
- Ostyak.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Khanty man in Tomsk, 2006.
- Ethnic group.population
- 33,000
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Russia)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 31,467 (2021)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 100 (2001)
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 429 (2009)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Russian Orthodoxy, Shamanism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Khanty, Russian
- Ethnic group.related
- Mansi
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Ethnonym
- History
- Organisation
- Culture
- Economy and livelihood
- Religion
- Oral and written literature
- Media
- Language
- Genetics
- Notable Khanty
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- External links
thumb|200px|right|Khanty family standing in front of a chum (tent)|chum, their traditional tent thumb|200px|Most Khanty people live in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug in western [[Siberia]] The Khanty (), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (), are a Ugric Indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2021 Census, 31,467 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 30,242 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of whom 19,568 were living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 9,985—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 495 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 109 lived in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
== Ethnonym == thumb|Khanty from the Ob river Since the Khanty language has about 10 dialects which can be united in 3 main branches, there are several slightly different words used by these people to describe themselves: Khanti, Khante (in North) Khande (in South) Kantek, Kantakh (in East) All these words mean 'human'. They also call themselves As Khoyat which means 'Obian people' or 'people from Ob'.