ISO 639-3 · kimkim
Turkic family
Tofa
Тоъфа дыл
Tofa is a language of the Siberian Turkic branch (Turkic), spoken in Russia. Wikidata counts about 93 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “moribund Turkic language spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast by the Tofalars”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
kim- Glottocode
kara1462- Family
- Turkic
- EGIDS
- 8a Moribund
- UNESCO
- Critically endangered
- Wikipedia
- 43 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
8aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Tofa · Тоъфа дыл |
|---|---|
| Also called | Karagas, Karagas language, Tofalar language, Tofa language, Tofalar |
| All speakers | 93 |
| Written in | Cyrillic |
Vitality
EGIDS 8a Moribund8a
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Critically endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Turkic to Tofa
The branches above Tofa, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Russia
deuGermanIndo-European · 135 m1 · NationalrusRussianIndo-European · 110 m1 · NationalkorKoreanKoreanic · 73.2 m1 · NationalfasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafeukrUkrainianIndo-European · 34.7 m1 · NationalkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationalazjNorth AzerbaijaniTurkic · 9.2 m1 · NationalbulBulgarianIndo-European · 9 m1 · NationalbelBelarusianIndo-European · 7.9 m1 · National