Chulym
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the language of the Chulyms, natively spoken in Siberia
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ øs tilɪ ~ ø:s tilɪ ] , [ tadar tilɪ ]
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Tyukhtetsky District , Teguldetsky District , Krasnoyarsk Krai , Tomsk Oblast
- Ethnicity
- 382 Chulyms (2021 census)
- Native speakers
- 30 (2019–2024) , 38 (2020 census) , <20 (2017)
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic South Siberian Chulym
- Dialects
- Lower Chulym † Middle Chulym/Tutal Upper Chulym/Melet
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Iso 639 3
- clw
- Glottolog
- chul1246 Lower Chulym, mele1253 Melet, tuta1234 Tutal
- Elp
- Chulym
- Linguasphere
- 44-AAB-dh
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 44
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Chulym (Chulym: Ось тили, чулым тили, татар тили[, Ös tili, chulym tili, tatar tili; Russian: Чулымский язык), also known as Chulym Tatar, Chulim, Chulym-Turkic (not to be confused with the Turkic Siberian Tatar language) and Ös, is a critically endangered language of the Chulyms, spoken by no more than 30 people, many of whom are elderly. The names which the people use to refer to themselves are пистиҥ кишилер, pistɪŋ kiʃɪler (our people) and ось кишилер, øs kiʃɪler (Ös people). The native designation for the language are ось тил(и), øs til(ɪ) ~ ø:s til(ɪ), and less frequently тадар тил(и), tadar til(ɪ).
The language is spoken in Russia, at various locations along the Chulym River usually by Indigenous people native to the Chulym river basin.