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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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The winter school has started with Zsófia Schön's Surgut Khanty course and a game of hangman based on Khanty phonetics!

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I've been doing a Mansi translation of minecraft, it's nowhere near finised, I just wanted to show off :P There I made a video but it's too large :/

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I like your funny words magic man. Neovocabularians, are like, neologismians, but in bigger scale, no?

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I've made and uploaded a twitter style emoji for Yugra onto wikimedia, feel free to use it! I may be making one for unicode flags as well today, I'll see how hard it is haha commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tw...

This is only a 960x960 version, if you want the SVG you can download it from wikimedia commons through the link!

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Outi Länsman @outilansman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

❤️Buori sámi álbmotbeaivvi! 💚Pyeri säämi aalmugpeivi! 💛Šiõǥǥ saa´mi meersažpeei´v! 💙Hyvää saamelaisten kansallispäivää!

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Ты алпыл тӯйт тӯйтыс?! Хумус?! Таи мо̄лхо̄тал метероло̄г хо̄тпат ат ла̄всыт.

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I've been reading the world creation myth of Mansi, and I love the word usages, very unusual, never seen combinations haha

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ам кит хо̄тал (туп-яр хӯрум са̄т) сыс тэ̄лнут о̄лупса ханищтапе ловиньтылум... Ам ва̄гта̄л патсум. Ты экзамум о̄с лю̄льсаӈ ке хансэ̄гум, порыгме̄гум 🫠

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I sent a split request to the LCA about Khanty, and got a response last night. I made a response today, with a lot of publications showcasing the importance in organising and representing these languages as separate.

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Do they write in the Komi language sometimes? Or is it mostly in Russian? >.> Would be cool if we could make an "ad" with them about Lingonaut, maybe we could even have a Komi course if someone joins us.

Oh no kecske is goat, I just not included it here cause it's obvious haha

These words are otherwise unknown of origin >.> Tbh, proto-uralic reconstruction of maa is *mexe (i can't type the accute accent e)

So I read up on it more, and it is apperantly related with meder and meddő.

mét comes from the original word of kecskemed -> med which means "periodical waterditch" (Kiss 1980) However he doesn't say what it comes from... 🤔

For a while I thought that the city named Kecskemét had "mét" in it as the old relictum of the cognate of maa, but alas that is not true 😔

I always wondered how Hungarian doesn't have a cognate with ма̄. Northern Mansi wird fir mammoth is ма̄хар, wonder when did they change the word to be this instead of "ма̄ӈа̄ньт" if this was even how it was written.

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Ма̄тапрись мо̄йт ловиньтэн!

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I had an idea on making this booklet in all the Uralic languages that have a translation of the UDHR. If anyone knows where I could find them, outside of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonia, I'd be very happy if they could lend me a hand in collecting them!

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Souls can also materialize in different ways: as a visible shadow, a breath of air, a reflection in water, or even a bird. After death, some souls go to the realm of the dead, while others remain on earth for a certain period of time, where they can harm the bereaved.

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I have made a mockup of the mansi translation of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a booklet format. Ofc wrote on it that it hasn't been reviewed by the UN on an official case.

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Я-та, са̄ль :( То̄внакт ва̄лмум ла̄тыӈта̄л. Ла̄тӈыт ат номылматаве.

Yeah, sadly some don't work proper :(

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Пася пася! Наӈ ма̄ньси ла̄тӈыл ёмасякв хансуӈкве ве̄рме̄гын! Наӈ тыи толмасьлан утыл хассын? :>

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(Хотал Мӓтны Пальха̊р) Хо̄нтыӈ Ма̊̄ньсь | Eastern Mansi

youtube.com/shorts/eR3XO... Хо̄нтаӈ Ма̄ньси Ла̄тыӈ New video, little short one, about the Konda Mansi language!

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YouTube video by Uralics of Russia

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ESUKA/JEFUL @esukajeful.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Со̄тыӈ, Сю̄ниӈ Йильпи Та̄л О̄лэ̄н!🎆 На̄н ты та̄лт а̄нумныл са̄в пӯмась утыт сунсуӈкве ос ловиньтаӈкве патэгы̄н! 😊

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Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social & Luke Maurits analyse stability of meanings in basic vocabulary lists of Uralic languages by calculating a borrowing probability for each meaning and clustering them into groups of more borrowable and less borrowable meanings. doi.org/10.12697/jef...

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yesterday I attended the Udmurt Language day celebration at Szeged University! We made some traditional hay decorations, drank some tea and ate traditional potato flatbread, while listening to some Udmurt music. And at the end we watched a film named Анай (Mother)

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Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yesterday the Finno-Ugric department at the University of Szeged celebrated the Udmurt language day by familiarizing ourselves with Southern Udmurt dialects by watching a film. We also made traditional hay decorations. See the film here: youtu.be/e-Wi58ZfkDI?... #langsky

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

West-End station is my all time favourite in architecture.

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I only now come back to this. It's because they are cognates :> Some aren't though, and that's just coincidence then

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Post something random or have an ambivalent October

Lingonaut @lingonaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It was sorta out of respect for the bear, not to call it's name, but yeah haha

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

There is also other names, ню̄рмуй пупакве ӯнтуй то̄рев (nowadays only polar bears) пурнуй ect. There are recorded words in other Mansi varieties, like Eastern (Konda) Mansi: выйяньсих [wɘjænʲsʲix] Or Souther (Tavda) Mansi: tå̄rėŋ or äńšuχ ~ äńčuχ

Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The original word for bear was avoided so much by the Hungarians, we got the taboo name for it from a slavic language. Northern Mansi had the same, so they don't have the original word for bear neither. They call it во̄рто̄лно̄йка or во̄рто̄лнут "in forest living old man" or "in forest living thing".

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Ewit @ewit.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Even Mansi say ся̄й (the macron is wrong on blueksy, that's a shame)