Eastern Mansi

Eastern or Konda Mansi, an extinct member of the Mansi languages, was spoken in the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug around the river Konda. It became extinct in 2018 with the death of its last speaker, Maksim Shivtorov. Influenced by Khanty and Siberian Tatar, it features vowel harmony and diphthongization, particularly for */æː/, which is realized as [œː].

Eastern Mansi includes four dialects: Lower Konda Mansi, Middle Konda Mansi, Upper Konda Mansi, and Jukonda Mansi. Phonologically, consonants like /ŋ/ are spelled as 'н' before certain letters but not in suffixes. Vowels vary between dialects, with some present only in palatal environments or specific syllable positions.

Diphthongs differ between Middle and Lower Konda: /øæ/ appears in both first and non-initial syllables in Middle Konda, while /æø/ is often realized as [œ] in Lower Konda. The language used a Cyrillic script with some exceptions for loanwords and nasal consonants.

Eastern Mansi literature was limited but used Cyrillic script when printed. Key references include works by Forsberg and Popov, with the latter translating the Gospel of Matthew into Konda Mansi.