Манакухасом

Mанаюхасом (IPA: mänäjuχäson, litterally: "our tongue from the snow") or just Хасом (IPA: χäson, "our tongue"), is the earliest recorded form of Мнакха and is the parent language of Modern Мнакха. It was spoken in the 17th century in central Siberia, in a small, isolated village called Арая (äräjä, "village") and was recorded by Иван Григорович Садунов (Ivan Grigorovich Sadunoff), a nobleman from Russia who settled there, married a local girl and wrote down many of the local legends, creating a cyrillic standard written form for the language.

It was at the time spoken by a community of some 1000 members or fewer, but Арая became a small, local center thanks to the investment Садунов into the village, resulting in substantial immigration and Early Мнакха through language mixing.

It is thought that the community was greater before the Russian conquest of Siberia, but many villagers were systematically killed and relocated, so at the time of Садунов's arrival, fewer than two hundred people had grown up with the language, the others arriving in the village upon being rounded up by the Russians. Садунов's wife's mothertongue was Хасом, which is part of the reason it is so well recorded, with over nine hundred local legends written down, as well as several songs and five prayers to the spirits.