Taiga Sayan Turkic
Тоъфа дыл
Taiga Sayan Turkic is a Turkic language spoken in Russia, by about 93 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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Tofa (Тоъфа дыл, Tòfa dıl), also known as Tofalar or Karagas, is a Turkic language spoken in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia by the Tofalar, an indigenous people of Siberia. Tofa forms a dialect continuum with the closely related Tuvan language, and shares many features with it. Tofa is a critically endangered language, as classified by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, and recent estimates for speakers run from 67 to fewer than 40 individuals.
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Words in Taiga Sayan Turkic
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| eye | карак | qaraq |
| head | баъш | bàş |
| liver | баар | |
| water | суғ | suɣ |
| who | ӄум | qum |
| tea | цай | |
| egg | нюмурһа | |
| house | öh | |
| music | һобус |
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Vocabulary
- TuvinianTurkic80% alike
- Northern AltaiTurkic48% alike
- KazakhTurkic44% alike
- Lower Chulym TurkicTurkic43% alike
- Mrassu Shor-TutalTurkic43% alike
- ChagataiTurkic41% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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