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
Ostyaks
linked to: Khanty people
autonymLanguage Khanty language
country Russia
culturalRegion Western Siberia
ethnicMinorityIn Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
ethnonym Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
federalSubjectOfResidence 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 Ob-Ugric
linked to: Ugric languages
mainRegion Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
nativeName ханты
populationRegion Irtysh River basin
linked to: Irtysh River

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

Selkup people
linked to: Selkup
relatedLinguisticallyTo Hungarians
Mansi people
religion 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

How these facts were elicited

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
linked to: Khanty people
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug recognizedMinorityLanguage Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug hasIndigenousPeople Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ethnicGroup Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Sergei Sobyanin ethnicGroup Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty people ethnonym Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty people alsoKnownAs Ostyaks
linked to: Khanty people
Tyumen Oblast hasEthnicGroup Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Siberian Khanate populationIncludes Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Finno-Ugric peoples hasMember Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty-Mansiysk namedAfter Khanty people
Khanty-Mansiysk localLanguages Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty-Mansiysk hasEthnicGroup Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty language spokenBy Khanty people
Khanty language ethnicGroup Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty language hasAlternativeName Khanty-Ostyak
linked to: Khanty people
Mansi people relatedEthnicGroup Khanty people
Mansi people historicalContactWith Khanty people
chum usedBy Khanty people
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug hasIndigenousPeople Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug hasEthnicGroup Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Nyaksimvol hasMinorityLanguage Khanty
linked to: Khanty people
Tomsk Oblast hasEthnicGroup Khanty people