Tuva

Facts

  • Language: Tuva
  • Alternate names: Tuvin, Tyva, Tuvan, Tuvia, Tokha, Soyot, Soyon, Soyod, Tannu-Tuva, Tuba, Tuvinian, Uriankhai, Uriankhai-Monchak, Uryankhai, Diba, Kök Mungak, Tuwa, Uryankhai-Monchak, Tuva-Uriankhai, Tuwa-Uriankhai, Sayan Samoyedic, Urjanchaisch, Sojonisch, Sojotisch, Tuvinisch, Uriangkhai, Karagas, South Siberian Turkic, тыва дыл, tyva dyl, тувинский язык, Тува хэл, Tuvaca
  • Language code: tyv
  • Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Central Siberian Turkic, South Siberian Turkic, Sayan
  • Dialects: Altay Tuvan, Jungar Tuvan.
  • Number of speakers: 242,754
  • Vulnerability: risk
  • Script: Cyrillic script.

More information:

    Until 1944 Tuva was an independent state. Buddhist (Lamaist), traditional religion.

    Tuva is spoken in Russia, China, Mongolia, Caucasus;Europe;East Asia.