Tubalar language

Tubalar
Туба, Тума
Native to	Russia
Region	Altai Republic, Altai Krai
Ethnicity	Tubalars
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	–
Glottolog	tuba1280
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. 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:^[2]

Notes and references

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.