Dictionaries Khanty
- Koshkareva, Natalya et al.: Khanty dialectal dictionary (Shuryshkary and Obdorsk dialects). Ekaterinburg: Basko, 2011.
Synya Khanty dictionary
The Synya Khanty Dictionary based on R. Makarovna’s dialect is a part of a comprehensive project tending to document the living Khanty dialects. Its plan was elaborated and published by Éva Schmidt. Essentially, this project aims at documenting the dialects and sub-dialects of the Ob-Ugric languages by recording the performance or language knowledge of the last speakers. She recommended a method similar to using questionnaires, in which the entries of the well-known dialect dictionaries of the Ob-Ugric languages are taken as a starting point. It is the conversations triggered by the words to be explained that should be recorded, as the explanations are determined by free associations. Evidently, this material will inform us on the characteristic features of the mental operations of speech. The material of the Synya Khanty dictionary (50 + 20 hours) was recorded in 1999 and 2002. This article presents the theoretical and practical problems of the collecting and elaborating process.