Tuvan language
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Tuvan (Тыва дыл) | |
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Spoken in: | Russia |
Region: | Tuva |
Total speakers: | 200,000 |
Ranking: | not in top 100 |
Genetic classification: | Altaic (disputed) Turkic Northern Tuvan |
Official status | |
Official language of: | --- |
Regulated by: | --- |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | |
ISO 639-2 | tyv |
SIL | TUN |
See also: Language – List of languages |
The Tuvan language (Tuvan: Тыва дыл (Tyva dyl)), also known as Tuvinian language, is one of the Turkic languages. It is spoken by around 200,000 people in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia. The language borrows a great number of roots from the Mongolian language and a few words from the Russian language.
It is written with a modified version of the Russian alphabet, with three additional letters: Ңң (latin "ng" or "ŋ"), Өө (latin "ö"), Үү (latin "ü"). The sequence of the alphabet follows Russian exactly, with Ң located after Н, Ө after О, and Ү after У.
- ethnologue report for Tuvan language (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TUN)
Example of language could be found here: Enesay.com - Tuvinian literature and mythology (http://www.enesay.com/)
de:Tuwinische Sprache