The Khanty people, who also call themselves
Khanti,
Khande, or
Kantek were known to the Russians as
Yugra in the eleventh century, with the name
Ostyak first appearing in the sixteenth century. The
Soviet Union began using the
endonym Khant or
Khanty during the 1930s. some 28,000 people identify as Khanty, primarily in
Tyumen Oblast, which includes the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The Khanty languages, also known as Hanty, Khant, Xanty, or Ostyak, are a
Uralic language group with about 9,500 native speakers. ==Ket==