1. Khanty - Noun
2. Khanty - Proper noun
a Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Ostyak
a member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Urals)
Source: WordNetAmong the Khanty people of the Irtysh River basin, a belief existed that the mammoth was some kind of a water spirit. Source: Internet
Hungarian has traditionally been assigned to a Ugric branch within Uralic/Finno-Ugric, along with the Mansi and Khanty languages of western Siberia ( Khanty–Mansia region), but it is no longer clear that it is a valid group. Source: Internet
Within Ugric, uniting Mansi with Hungarian rather than Khanty has been a competing hypothesis to Ob-Ugric. Source: Internet
It exists in Hungarian and various Baltic-Finnic languages, and is present to some degree elsewhere, such as in Mordvinic, Mari, Eastern Khanty, and Samoyedic. Source: Internet