Pallas expedíciójának manysi anyaga

The great expedition of 1768–1774, the so-called Orenburg Expedition, gathered a wealth of information about Russia’s eastern landscapes, including ethnographic and linguistic material. In my previous studies I have dealt with the Mordvin, Mari and Udmurt vocabulary of the expeditions, in this paper I present the Mansi material of the expedition led by Peter Simon Pallas. In the description of travel (Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Rußischen Reichs in den Jahren I–III.), Pallas mentions the Mansi in two places. The first part of the second volume describes the Mansis. In the first part of the third volume, Pallas publishes a 53-word table with data on the Khanti, Mansi and Mordvin. The largest part of the vocabulary is made up of numerals, but there are also names for parts of the body, animals, natural formations, god, devil, human and man. Pallas classifies the Mansi data in the header of the glossary as Sosva, but gives no information about the data providers. Based on the linguistic data, it seems likely that he had a communicator(s) who spoke not only Sosva but also a Middle-Lozva dialect. The transcription of the Mansi words in the glossary is relatively good.