Soyot-Tsaatan language

Soyot-Tsaatan (or Soyot) is an extinct Turkic language of the Siberian Sayan branch closely related to the Tuvan and Tofa languages. Two dialects are spoken in Russia and Mongolia: Soyot in the Okinsky District of the Republic of Buryatia (Russia) and Tsaatan (Tuha) in the Darkhad valley of Mongolia.

Soyot-Tsaatan
сойыт тыл
Native toRussia, Mongolia
RegionBuryatia, Khövsgöl Province
EthnicitySoyots
ExtinctSecond half of 20th century[1]
Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologsoyo1234  Soyot
ELPSoyot[2]

In 2002, a Soyot-Buryat-Russian dictionary was published.[3] In 2020, a children's book was published in the Soyot language, along with Russian, Mongolian, and English translations.[4]

Classification

According to some researchers, the Sayan-Turkic branch has five languages:[5][6]

  • Tuvan (ISO 639:tyv)
  • Tofa (ISO 639:kim)
  • Soyot
  • Dukhan (ISO 639:dkh, rejected)
  • Tuba (extinct)

According to Glottolog, the Soyot is a dialect of the Taiga and Sayan languages:[7]

See also

References
  1. "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Soyot.
  3. "Soyot-Buryat-Russian Dictionary".
  4. "Soyot Picture Dictionary" (PDF).
  5. "THE DUKHAS OF MONGOLIA A 'NOT LOST' TURCOPHONE PEOPLE" (PDF). Retrieved 2 January 2021. ...Dukhan language, it belongs to the taiga subgroup of Sayan Turkic, which itself is a member of the Siberian branch of the Turkic languages. The other Taiga Sayan Turkic languages are Tofan, which is spoken in the Irkutsk Oblast’, with varieties spoken in the Toja and Tere-Khöl regions of the Tuvan republic, and the Soyot language spoken in the Oka region of the Buryat republic.
  6. "A comparative study on the Sayan languages (Turkic; Russia and Mongolia) | Student Repository". studenttheses.universiteitleiden.nl. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. "Glottolog 4.3 - Sayan". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
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