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Os·ty·ak

also Os·ti·ak (ŏs′tē-ăk′)

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

2. The Ugric language of this people.

[Russian, from Ostyak āsyakh, pl. of āskho, person from the Ob River, from Ās, the Ob River.]

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Ostyak

(ˈɒstɪˌæk)

npl -aks or -ak

1. (Peoples) a member of an Ugrian people living in NW Siberia E of the Urals

2. (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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The Obdorsk dialect (an older name is Ostyak) represents the northern subgroup of the Khanty dialect continuum that belongs to the Ugric (Uralic) family (Abondolo 1998 : 358; Nikolaeva 1999a : 3; [phrase omitted] 2002 : 6).

POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE OBDORSK DIALECT OF THE KHANTY LANGUAGE

The prisoners were bound for Obdorsk, but at a place called Berezov in Ostyak territory close to the Arctic Circle, Trotsky contrived to organise his escape with the help of a local surveyor named Rokoshovsky.

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They are the emblems of power and ceremony for the shamans of the Kwakiutl, the Siberian Yakut and Yenisei Ostyak, and many of the tribes of Australian aboriginals.

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For the moon we find 'Old Man' in the Nenets area and 'hoary Old Man' in Ostyak and for the sun there is the sun-god Yarilo in Russian and in Ukrainian.

Insights into the cultural history of Europe as provided by the Atlas Linguarum Europae (1). (Linguistics)

The main focus of the paper is Ostyak (Uralic), where the secondary topic is systematically expressed by object agreement.

Secondary topic as a relation in information structure(*)

We know where the Magyar's closest relatives--the Khants (or Ostyak) and the Mansi (or Voguls)--came from and where they went: the tundra of the lower valley of the River Ob in Siberia.

3 Humans in the tundra

Est.--Estonian; Fin.--Finnish; FP--Finno-Permic; FU--Finno-Ugric; FV--Finno-Volgaic; Hun.--Hungarian; Kh.--Khanty (Ostyak); Man.--Mansi (Vogul); Md.--Mordvin; Nen.--Nenets (Yurak); NS--Northern Sami, Udm.--Udmurt (Votyak).

The -m(V) nominal derivational suffixes in Erzya-Mordvin

-- 1999b, Ostyak, Muenchen (Languages of the World/Materials 305).

Evidentiality in dialects of Khanty

In addition to Hungarian, Finnish, Zyrian, Votyak, Vogul and Ostyak data, we can also find Mordvin words in this (that he collected either in Nizhny Novgorod or Kazan at the beginning of his expedition, in 1719).

The first period of Mordvin lexicography: 17-18th century glossaries and dictionaries

1999, Ostyak, Munchen--Newcastle (Languages of the World / Materials 305).

Morphophonological nature of Mari accentuation as viewed from the Uralic perspective

It is a language distantly related to Finnish and more closely related to Hungarian: its closest relative is Khanty (Ostyak).