Chulym

Facts

  • Language: Chulym
  • Alternate names: Chulym Tatar, Chulim, Ös til, Ӧс тили, Чулым, июс тили, татар тили, Chulym-Turkish, Chulym Turkic, Ostiaki, чулымский язык, чулым татар теле, Çulımca, Çulım tili, Çulım Tatar tili, Çulım Türkçesi, Küerik, Tchoulyme, Tšulymin kieli,
  • Language code: clw
  • Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Central Siberian Turkic, South Siberian Turkic
  • Dialects: Lower Chulym.
  • Number of speakers: 35
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script:

More information:

    Spoken in villages. Also spoken by the Kacik (Kazik, Kuarik).

    The language of the Chulym Tatars or the Chulym language belongs to the Turkish-Tatar languages, East-Hun branch, Uighur-Oguz group, subgroup of Khakass. The Chulym language differs from its nearest related languages (Khakass, Shor, Kamas) in various phonetical and grammatical features. Two dialects can be distinguished: Lower-Chulym and Middle-Chulym or Melets, which, in their turn, divide into vernaculars. (The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire)