Tofa
E841573
Tofa is a critically endangered Turkic language spoken by a small indigenous community in Siberia, Russia.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turkic language
ⓘ
critically endangered language ⓘ minority language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Karagas
ⓘ
Tofa Turkic NERFINISHED ⓘ Tofalar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Tuvan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tuvan language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| domainOfUse |
home and community contexts
ⓘ
traditional cultural events ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | UNESCO critically endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tofa people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
SOV word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ evidentiality distinctions ⓘ rich case system ⓘ vowel harmony ⓘ |
| intergenerationalTransmission | largely interrupted ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | kim ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Siberian Turkic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Siberian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Turkic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageShiftTo | Russian ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers |
fewer than 100
ⓘ
severely declining ⓘ |
| partOf | Turkic language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOfEducation | Russian ⓘ |
| region |
Eastern Sayan Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nizhneudinsky District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
community-based language classes
ⓘ
dictionary compilation ⓘ documentation projects ⓘ text collection ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Tofa people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenByAgeGroup | primarily elderly speakers ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Irkutsk Oblast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | critically endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Siberian Turkic language
ⓘ
South Siberian Turkic language ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| usedIn |
folklore
ⓘ
shamanic practices ⓘ traditional reindeer herding culture ⓘ traditional songs ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
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