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Os·ty·ak also Os·ti·ak (

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1. A member of a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting western Siberia.

2. The Ugric language of this people.

[Russian, from Ostyak syakh, pl. of skho, person from the Ob River, from s, the Ob River.]

Ostyak [ˈɒstɪˌæk]

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -aks, -ak a member of an Ugrian people living in NW Siberia E of the Urals

2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family: related to Hungarian

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Noun	1.	Ostyak - a member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Urals) Khanty Russian - a native or inhabitant of Russia
	2.	Ostyak - a Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Ostyak Khanty Ugrian, Ugric - one of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages; spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia

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Finno-Ugric Hungarian Khanty language Ostiak Ostyak-Samoyed people Russian Samoyed Samoyedic Selkup Siberia Siberian Ugrian Ugric Vogul			the coincidence being the apparent similarity between the name of the region the Voguls and Ostyaks inhabited, Yugria, and the ethnonym hungarus (p. Angela Marcantonio: The Uralic Language Family by De Smit, Merlijn / Linguistica Uralica			ostracon Ostrava Ostrea Ostrea gigas Ostreaceous Ostreaculture Ostreidae Ostreophagist ostrich Ostrich farm Ostrich farming ostrich fern ostrichism Ostriferous Ostrogoth Ostrogothic Ostrovsky Ostrya Ostrya carpinifolia Ostrya virginiana Ostryopsis Ostwald Ostwald's theory of indicators Ostyak Ostyak-Samoyed Ostyaks Osun Oswald Oswald Spengler Oswald Veblen Oswego Oswego tea Oswi?cim OT ot- otacoustic Otago Otaheite apple Otaheite arrowroot Otaheite arrowroot starch Otaheite orange otalgia Otalgic Otalgy Otaria Otaria Byronia Otariidae Otary OTB OTC OTC market			OSTTE OSTU Ostuzhev, Aleksandr Ostuzhev, Aleksandr Alekseevich OSTV Ostvorpommern Ostwald Ostwald Ostwald coefficient Ostwald dilution law Ostwald process Ostwald ripening Ostwald viscometer Ostwald's adsorption isotherm Ostwald's solubility coefficient Ostwald's theory of indicators Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, Wilhelm Ostwald, Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwalt curve Ostwestfalen-Lippe OSTWM Ostyak Ostyak Ostyak Samoyeds Ostyak-Samoyed Ostyaks Ostyor Ostyor OSU OSU OSU columbus OSU columbus OSU Veterinary Medicine Alumni OSU VMTH OSUA OSUAA OSUB OSUBRS OSUC OSUCCC OSUCO OSUCOM OSUE OSUEA OSUES OSUF OSUG Osuga Osuga River OSUH OSUI OSUL OSULA

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