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# khanty

«khanty» in Mova's school dictionary: **an Indigenous people who live in western Siberia, in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the Khanty, a Khanty); adjective (Khanty)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) The Khanty are an Indigenous people who live in western Siberia, in Russia, near the Ob River. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#m1)

2) (a name) Khanty is also the name of their language, related to Hungarian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Geography and culture lessons about peoples of the far north: many Khanty traditionally herd reindeer, fish and hunt. Their land is in the Khanty-Mansi region of Russia.

### examples

- The Khanty live in western Siberia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#x1)
- Some Khanty families still herd reindeer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#x2)
- The Khanty language is distantly related to Hungarian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#x3)
- The Khanty catch fish in the cold rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#x4)
- We read a Khanty folk tale in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#x5)
- Oil drilling has changed Khanty land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/#x6)

### note

Capital letter: Khanty. Plural the same: the Khanty. Pronounced «KHAN-tee».

### In the corpora

- [Siberian peoples such as the Khanty, Evenks and Yakuts lost land, and many died from new diseases and violence.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «khanty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/khanty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.