public_comment: "Mansi is, with some justification, often considered to be a single language with four main groups of dialects; the linguistic differences within Mansi are, indeed, smaller than those within the otherwise comparable cases of Khanty, Selkup, and Ket.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:18779,
code_id:8530,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "<500",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: "0",
young_adults: "0",
older_adults: "0?",
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "<1,000",
date_of_info: "1993",
public_comment: "mean age of youngest speakers: unknown, but hardly less than 60 years",