Khanty people

E176534

The Khanty people are an Indigenous Uralic ethnic group of northwestern Siberia, traditionally semi-nomadic reindeer herders, hunters, and fishers living mainly in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russia.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Khanty 16
Khanty people canonical 9
Khanty-Ostyak 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Uralic ethnic group
ethnic group
affectedBy Soviet collectivization policies
oil and gas development in Western Siberia
alsoKnownAs Khant
Khanty people
surface form: Ostyaks
autonymLanguage Khanty language
country Russia
culturalRegion Western Siberia
ethnicMinorityIn Russia
surface form: Russian Federation
ethnonym Khanty people self-linksurface differs
surface form: Khanty
federalSubjectOfResidence Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
surface form: Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra

Tomsk Oblast
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
hasCulturalPractice epic storytelling
ritual songs
historicalContactWith Russian Empire
Soviet Union
languageFamily Uralic languages
languageStatus endangered
linguisticBranch Ugric languages
surface form: Ob-Ugric
mainRegion Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
nativeName ханты
populationRegion Irtysh River
surface form: Irtysh River basin

Ob River basin
recognizedAs Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of Russia
relatedEthnicGroup Mansi people
Nenets
surface form: Nenets people

Selkup
surface form: Selkup people
relatedLinguisticallyTo Hungarians
Mansi people
religion Russian Orthodox Church
surface form: Russian Orthodoxy
speaks Khanty language
traditionalBelief bear cult
veneration of nature spirits
traditionalDwelling chum
traditionalEconomy fur trapping
river fishing
taiga hunting
traditionalLifestyle semi-nomadic
traditionalOccupation fishing
hunting
reindeer herding
traditionalReligion animism
shamanism
traditionalTerritory northwestern Siberia
uses Khanty language in oral tradition
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ugric languages spokenBy Khanty people
Selkup relatedEthnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug recognizedMinorityLanguage Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug hasIndigenousPeople Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ethnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Sergei Sobyanin ethnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty people ethnonym Khanty people self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty people alsoKnownAs Khanty people
this entity surface form: Ostyaks
Tyumen Oblast hasEthnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Siberian Khanate populationIncludes Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Finno-Ugric peoples hasMember Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty-Mansiysk namedAfter Khanty people
Khanty-Mansiysk localLanguages Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty-Mansiysk hasEthnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty language spokenBy Khanty people
Khanty language ethnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty language hasAlternativeName Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty-Ostyak
Mansi people relatedEthnicGroup Khanty people
Mansi people historicalContactWith Khanty people
chum usedBy Khanty people
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug hasIndigenousPeople Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug hasEthnicGroup Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Nyaksimvol hasMinorityLanguage Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty
Tomsk Oblast hasEthnicGroup Khanty people
Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North hasMemberCommunities Khanty people
this entity surface form: Khanty