Tubalar language

Turkic language
Tubalar
Туба, Тума
Native toRussia
RegionAltai Republic, Altai Krai
EthnicityTubalars
Native speakers
930 (2020)[1]
Language family
Turkic
  • Common Turkic
    • Kipchak/Siberian Turkic
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak/South Siberian
        • Yenisei Turkic
          • Northern Altai
            • Tubalar
Writing system
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologtuba1280
A map of the Altai languages, including Tubalar (in green).

The Tuba-Kiji, Tubalar or Tuba language is a Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic in Russia.

The Tuba-Kiji are sometimes called "Black Tatars" (Russian: чернёвых татар) or Tubalars.

Internal classification

The language is classified in the Siberian Turkic languages. It is considered to be a Northern Altai dialect.[2] However, this classification is disputed, and it may be a Kipchak language. The Tubalars, aside from knowing Tubalar, also can understand Chelkan and Kumandin.

Orthography

In 2010, a Russian-Tubalar phrasebook was published, with the following orthography:[3]

А а Б б В в Г г Ғ ғ Д д Ј ј Е е Ё ё Ж ж Җ җ З з
И и Й й К к Қ қ Л л Љ љ М м Н н Ҥ ҥ Њ њ О о Ӧ ӧ
П п Р р С с Т т У у Ӱ ӱ Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ҷ ҷ Ш ш
Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я

Notes and references

  1. ^ Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку
  2. ^ Baskakov, N.A. (1958). "La classification des dialectes de la langue turque d'Altaï". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 8 (1): 9–15. JSTOR 23682215.
  3. ^ Todozhokova, A.S.; Kuchukova, A.S. (2019). Sarbasheva, S.B. (ed.). Kak eto skazat po-tubalarski: russko-tubalarsky razgovornik Как это сказать по-тубаларски: русско-тубаларский разговорник [How to say it in Tubalar: a Russian-Tubalar phrasebook] (in Russian). Горно-Алтайск: Altyn-Tuu. pp. 12–18.

Sources

  • (ru) Баскаков, Н.A., Диалект чернёвых татар (туба-кижи), Северные диалекты алтаиского (ойротского) языка, 2 volumes, Moscou, Nauka, 1965–1966.

External links

  • Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.[This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue], which is incorrect about Northern Altai dialects, for which it gives names of southern dialects as alternative names.
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