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Tofa
Sign in to saveAlso known as Karagas, Karagas language, Tofalar language, Tofa language, Tofalar
moribund Turkic language spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast by the Tofalars
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ t̪ɔˤfa d̪ɯl̪ ]
- Native to
- Russia
- Region
- Tofalariya , Irkutsk Oblast
- Ethnicity
- Tofalar
- Native speakers
- 67 (2020 census)
- Language family
- Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic South Siberian Sayan Turkic Taiga Sayan Turkic Tofa
- Iso 639 3
- kim
- Glottolog
- kara1462 Taiga Sayan Turkic, tofa1248 Tofa
- Elp
- Tofa
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Described at
Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 93
- native label
- Тоъфа дыл
- described at URL
- turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=tof
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Tofa (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.