Dukha or Dukhan is an endangered Turkic variety spoken by approximately five hundred people of the Dukhan (a.k.a. Tsaatan) people in the Tsagaan-Nuur county of Khövsgöl Province in northern Mongolia. Dukhan belongs to the Taiga subgroup of Sayan Turkic (which also includes Soyot–Tsaatan and Tofa).[1] This language is nearly extinct and is only spoken as a second language. The ISO 639-3 proposal (request) code was dkh,[2] but this proposal was rejected.[3]
Dukha | |
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Tsaatan | |
тyъһа тыл Tuha tıl | |
Native to | Mongolia |
Region | Khövsgöl Province |
Ethnicity | Dukha |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 500)[1] |
Turkic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | dukh1234 |
ELP | Dukha |
It is mostly related to the Soyot language of Buryatia.[4] Also, it is related to the language of Tozhu Tuvans and the Tofa language. Today, it is spoken alongside Mongolian.[5]
Dukhan morphophonemic units are written with capital letters, similar to its sister languages and standard grammars.[1]
The Dukha language or Dukhan is an endangered Turkic language. It is spoken by about five hundred people of the Dukhan (also Tsaatan) from Tsagaan-Nuur County, Tsagaannurr (Khövsgöl) Mongolia. Цагааннуур сум) is a Sum (district) of Mongolia in the province of Khövsgöl, located in Northern Mongolia.
Proto-Turkic | Common Turkic | Northeastern Common Turkic (Siberian) | North Siberian | ||
South Siberian | Sayan Turkic |
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Yenisei Turkic |
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Chulym Turkic |
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Old Turkic |
Alexander Vovin (2017) notes that Tofa and other Siberian Turkic languages, especially Sayan Turkic, have Yeniseian loanwords.[15]
Currently, the Dukhan language is mainly related to an amalgam of dialects from the nomadic people of Inner Mongolia, China, Russia, and surrounding areas.
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