Tofalar language

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Tofa, Karagascan

Spoken in

Russia
speaker 93 (2010)
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in -
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

tut (other Altaic languages)

ISO 639-3

kim

Tofalar , also known as Karagascan , is the language of the Tofalars (Karagasse). This was codified into written language in 1989 by a textbook ( Tofalarski bukwar dlja perwogo klassa tofalarskich schkol ) published by Valentin I. Rassadin and VN Schibkejew . It was spoken by only 93 people in southern Siberia in 2010 and is threatened with extinction . It is closely related to the Tuvan language . Both languages ​​are assigned to the Turkic languages .

The language code is kim(according to ISO 639-3 ).

Alphabets

Tofalar has been officially written in Cyrillic script .

А а Б б В в Г г Ғ ғ Д д Е е Ә ә
Ё ё Ж ж З з И и I i Й й К к Қ қ
Л л М м Н н Ң ң О о Ө ө П п Р р
С с Т т У у Ү ү Ф ф Х х Һ һ Ц ц
Ч ч Ӌ ӌ Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы Ь ь Э э
Ю ю Я я

The letters Ғғ [ɣ], Әә [æ], Ii [iː], Ққ [q], Ңң [ŋ], Өө [œ], Үү [y], Һһ [h], and, are used here Ҷҷ [d͡ʒ]. Occasionally, ъ is used after a vowel to indicate a low note, e.g. B. in эът "meat."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b Karagasian at Ethnologue , accessed on May 20, 2016.
  2. ^ Lars Johanson (1998) "The History of Turkic". In Lars Johanson & Éva Ágnes Csató (eds) The Turkic Languages . London, New York: Routledge, 81-125. Classification of Turkic languages ​​at Turkiclanguages.com