Tom dialect

Tom
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo, Tomsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts
Ethnicity	Tom Tatars
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Kyrgyz [1] Siberian Tatar Tom
Dialects	Eushta-Chat Or Chat Kalmak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tomm1241   Tomsk Tatar kalm1245   Kalmak Tatar

The Tom dialect is one of three major dialects of Siberian Tatars. Eushta, Kalmak and Chat Tatars speak this dialect.

Classification

In Tumasheva's opinion, the Tom dialect is grammatically very close to Altai and related languages. ^[2]

Dialects

According to Tumasheva, Tom dialect is divided into three sub-dialects:

• Eushta-Chat dialect (Tomsk Oblast)
  • Or sub-dialect of Chat Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast)
• Kalmak dialect (Kemerovo Oblast). (Sometimes considered a distinct language or dialect of Teleut ^[3] )

See also

• Siberian Tatars
• Siberian Tatar language
• Khanate of Sibir

References

1. "Сибирскотатарский язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
2. "Рамазанова Д. Б. К вопросу о системе диалектов и говоров татарского языка". Archived from the original on 2019-07-23. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
3. "Калмакский | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 2022-06-06.

External links

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.^{[ This citation is dated, and should be substituted with a specific edition of Ethnologue ]}

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