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Western References

 * Матпiинэл и Маркнэл Елпынг Евангелiи Маньсынгыш : От Матфея и от Марка святые Евангелия по-вогульски, изданные Британским и Иностранным Библейским Обществом. - Гельсингфорсъ : Типография Финского литературного общества, 1882. - 142 с.

Eastern Mansi Alphabet
Eastern Mansi also known as the Konda language doesn't use special characters in it's alphabet, stated in the first-ever Konda-Russian dictionary

Phonology of Eastern Mansi
Considerable differences can be found between Eastern and Northern Mansi.

Eastern References


==Phonology ==

Consonants
Some remarks:
 * 1) Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do these appear at the beginning of words.
 * 2) In Middle Konda it does not appear in the beginning of words, but in Lower Konda it does.
 * 3) /ŋ/ is also spelled with just н if it comes before к or х. This rule does not include suffixes; like in мынгым /mənɣəm/

Vowels
(KM=Present in Middle Konda | KU=Present in Upper Konda | K=Present in both)

Some remarks:
 * 1) Only present in palatal environments.
 * 2) It has the allophone /iː/.
 * 3) Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do these appear in non-initial syllable positions.
 * 4) Neither in Middle nor Lower Konda do /aː/ appear in first syllable positions.

Diphthongs
In Middle Konda, the diphthongs are /øæ/ or /øæ̯/ and /oɒ/ found in both first and non-initial syllable positions.

In Lower Konda, the /æø/ diphthong is usually realized as /œ/ which is only found in first syllable positions, while /øæ/ is found in both first and non-initial syllable positions.

Consonants
The inventory presented here is a maximal collection of segments found across the Mansi varieties. Some remarks:
 * 1) /ɕ/ is an allophone of /sʲ/.
 * 2) The voiceless velar fricatives /x/, /xʷ/ are only found in the Northern group and the Lower Konda dialect of the Eastern group, resulting from spirantization of *k, *kʷ adjacent to original back vowels.
 * 3) According to Honti, a contrast between *w and *ɣʷ can be reconstructed, but this does not surface in any of the attested varieties.
 * 4) The labialization contrast among the velars dates back to Proto-Mansi, but was in several varieties strengthened by labialization of velars adjacent to rounded vowels. In particular, Proto-Mansi *yK → Core Mansi *æKʷ (a form of transphonologization).
 * 5) Only pronounced as /g/ in loan words.