Northern Khanty
Aj-numti-ara
Northern Khanty
Aleksandra Seraskhova
Northern Khanty
Anna Seraskhova
Northern Khanty
Anna Sibareva
Northern Khanty
Anna Yokhma
Northern Khanty
Big bird
A song about a bird flying over the river Ob.
Northern Khanty
Brother and sister
Brother and sister’s argument because of hunting.
Northern Khanty
Burials
A short account of Khanty burial traditions and practices.
Northern Khanty
The crow song
A song performed in Khanty about a crow bird who, when she flies to a land, makes its women bear children.
Northern Khanty
The cuckoo
A folktale explaining why cuckoo birds do not build nests and get other birds to raise their youngs.
Northern Khanty
The devil
A song about a meeting with the devil.
Northern Khanty
Dialogue
A traditional Khanty joke in a form of a dialogue.
Northern Khanty
Dmitriy Tobolchin
Northern Khanty
Elder brother and younger brother
A version of the creation myth that explains how life appeared on earth.
Northern Khanty
Fox
A tale about the adventures of a fox, influenced by the Russian and European motifs.
Northern Khanty
The groom with three white reindeer
A short song performed in Khanty about a girl taken in marriage by the wrong man.
Northern Khanty
Hunter Grandson
Northern Khanty
Imi-Xili
An epic folktale on the intertwined adventures of a man found as a boy in a pile of wood shavings and a town hero.
Northern Khanty
In the little town
A personal lyrical song.
Northern Khanty
Irina Syazi
Northern Khanty
Ivan Durachok
A version of a traditional Russian folktale told in Khanty.
Northern Khanty
Katravozh
Northern Khanty
Kuropatka and the old man
In this short tale, an old man living with his blind wife in a filthy house is tricked by Kuropatka.
Northern Khanty
Kuzma and his strong comrades
A story narrating the epic journey of Kuzma to find himself a wife.
Northern Khanty
Lexical glosses for Northern Khanty (English)
An index of the English translations of Northern Khanty lexical words found in the transcribed texts.
Northern Khanty
Lexical words in Northern Khanty
An index of the Northern Khanty lexical items found in the transcribed texts.
Northern Khanty
Little beast
A bragging song of a clever little mouse.
Northern Khanty
The little mouse
A short diddle performed in Khanty about a clever little mouse.
Northern Khanty
Lyudmila Nechagi
Northern Khanty
The man of tales and the squirrel
A folktale about a man living alone after his people are killed, who one day meets a woman disguised as a squirrel.
Northern Khanty
Maria Moshkina
Northern Khanty
Maxim
A tale about a trickster influenced by the Russian and European folklore.
Northern Khanty
Mitxuj and Melesnik
A fairy tale about two friends who defeated a demon.
Northern Khanty
The Mos woman and the Pos woman
Northern Khanty
Muskrat
The adventures of an excessively confident muskrat.
Northern Khanty
My native land of Sob
Northern Khanty
Nina Vyichina
Northern Khanty
Northern Khanty
Khanty (or Ostyak) is a Uralic language spoken in western and north-western Siberia. There are three large dialectal groups but their speaker population size and the linguistic differences between them are quite significant: Northern Khanty (about 9,000 speakers), Eastern Khanty (about 3,000 speakers) and Southern Khanty (almost extinct).
Northern Khanty
Ob Gull
A little song performed in Khanty.
Northern Khanty
The old man and the swans
A folktale about an old man whose wife and sisters metamorphose into white swans and come to visit him in his home.
Northern Khanty
The Old Nenets man and his herd of ten thousand
A singing tale about an old Nenets man and his herd of ten thousand.
Northern Khanty
Palchik
A tale about a clever little man, influenced by the Russian and European motifs.
Northern Khanty
Pim-pim
A very short song performed in Khanty
Northern Khanty
The Por woman and the orphans
A traditional folk tale about the adventures of the evil Por woman and her orphan neighbours.
Northern Khanty
Russian city man
The Russian city man finds himself a Khanty wife.
Northern Khanty
Sawas and the three Por women
Northern Khanty
Seven brothers
A song about seven brothers who met the Por woman and the Mas woman.
Northern Khanty
The seven knives
A folktale recounting the adventures of a young boy on his travels to the land of the seven spirits.
Northern Khanty
The seven sisters and the wood grouse
A short Khanty folktale about a wood grouse seeking revenge on seven sisters who ate its nestlings.
Northern Khanty
Squirrel
An unfinished tale about a squirrel that lost its children.
Northern Khanty
A squirrel on the Supteng river
A song performed in Khanty about a tired old male squirrel eager to leave his nest and go to the Supteng river.
Northern Khanty
Stephan Kelchin
Northern Khanty
Suffix glosses for Northern Khanty (English)
An index of the English glosses for the Northern Khanty suffixes found in the transcribed texts.
Northern Khanty
Suffixes in Northern Khanty
An index of the Northern Khanty suffixes found in the transcribed texts.
Northern Khanty
Tatiyana Endyreva
Northern Khanty
The Tsar’s sons and the town boy
A short story recounting the adventures of a group of men travelling to a foreign land to marry a Tsar’s daughter.
Northern Khanty
The Tungus wife
A song about the violent fate of man with a herd of a thousand reindeer, who gets a Tungus wife for his servant.
Northern Khanty
Wajnin
Northern Khanty
The white cuckoo’s song
A short song performed by a Khanty speaker about a white cuckoo reminiscing of its life.