Wiktionary:About Northern Khanty

This page is a guideline for dealing with entries of Northern Khanty words.

Dialects
Add corresponding dialect label after entry headline.

Orthography
We follow the standard in, which includes the following letters:

The letters in brackets are used in other publications. We accept attested spellings as alternative forms; see for an example.

Important note: the letter is not yet available in Unicode, so we have decided to use   as a temporary replacement for the moment.

Pronunciation
One source of pronunciations is.

Etymology
Northern Khanty is a. As Proto-Ugric is not reconstructed, we show the etymologies using Proto-Finno-Ugric (or Proto-Uralic). Please indicate this by using. Proto-Khanty forms (also reconstructed) are added with the code, e.g. . As usual, the most recent ancestor goes first, so Proto-Khanty and then Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic.

The Uralonet is useful for this purpose.

Lemmas and inflected forms
Please include the inflected forms of each lemma:

Nouns
Nouns in Northern Khanty are inflected for three cases: nominative, accusative, and dative; and for three numbers: singular, dual, plural. We use the singular nominative form as the main lemma. Please include these other forms using.

The possessive forms (e.g. for ) come in 3 numbers and 9 possessors, which produce 27 forms in total. Please include these forms as well, using.

Verbs
There are currently no templates for indicating the conjugation of a verb.

Adjectives
Adjectives in Northern Khanty are not inflected.