Tubalar language
| Tubalar | |
|---|---|
| Туба, Тума | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Altai Republic, Altai Krai |
| Ethnicity | Tubalars |
Native speakers | 930 (2020)[1] |
Turkic
| |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Том 5. «Национальный состав и владение языками». Таблица 7. Население наиболее многочисленных национальностей по родному языку
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
[edit]- (ru) Баскаков, Н.A., Диалект чернёвых татар (туба-кижи), Северные диалекты алтаиского (ойротского) языка, 2 volumes, Moscou, Nauka, 1965–1966.
External links
[edit]- 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.
