Tofa language

E514630
Turkic language agglutinative language critically endangered language

Tofa is a critically endangered Turkic language traditionally spoken by the Tofa (Tofalars) people of south-central Siberia in Russia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tofa language canonical 1
Tofalar language 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language ⓘ
agglutinative language ⓘ
critically endangered language ⓘ
alternativeName Karagas ⓘ
Tofa NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tofalar NERFINISHED ⓘ
basicWordOrder SOV ⓘ
classification Turkic > Siberian Turkic > Tofa ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Russia ⓘ
documentationStatus partially documented ⓘ
endangermentCause assimilation policies in Soviet period ⓘ
language shift to Russian ⓘ
ethnicGroup Tofa people NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottocode tofa1241 ⓘ
hasFeature case system ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
vowel harmony ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses) ⓘ
palatalization contrasts ⓘ
ISO639-3 kim ⓘ
languageFamily Turkic languages ⓘ
morphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
numberOfSpeakers fewer than 50 speakers ⓘ
very few elderly speakers ⓘ
region Eastern Sayan Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nizhneudinsky District NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo Tofalar dialects ⓘ
Tuvan language NERFINISHED ⓘ
revitalizationEffort linguistic fieldwork and recording ⓘ
local documentation projects ⓘ
spokenBy Tofa people NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tofalars NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Irkutsk Oblast NERFINISHED ⓘ
Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tofalaria NERFINISHED ⓘ
south-central Siberia ⓘ
status critically endangered ⓘ
severely moribund ⓘ
subfamily North Siberian Turkic NERFINISHED ⓘ
Siberian Turkic NERFINISHED ⓘ
UNESCOStatus critically endangered ⓘ
usedFor traditional hunting terminology ⓘ
traditional reindeer herding terminology ⓘ
usedIn oral tradition of Tofa people ⓘ
writingSystem Cyrillic script ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northeastern Turkic → hasMember → Tofa language ⓘ
Northeastern Turkic → hasMember → Tofa language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tofalar language