Dukhan language

Dukha
Tsaatan, Tuha
тyъһа тыл Tuha tıl
tuʰha sös
Native toMongolia
RegionKhövsgöl Province
EthnicityDukha
Native speakers
50 (2024)[citation needed]
c. 500 (2011)[1]
Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3dkh (rejected)
Glottologdukh1234
ELPDukha
  Dukhan and   Tuvan distribution in Mongolia and Tuva
Dukha is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2]

Dukha or Dukhan is a nearly extinct Turkic language or dialect variety of Tuvan language spoken by the Dukhan (a.k.a. Tsaatan) herder 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 actively by no more than 40 people.[3] The ISO 639-3 proposal (request) code was dkh,[4] but this proposal was rejected.[5]

It is mostly[quantify] related to the Soyot language of Buryatia.[6] Also, it is related to the language of Tozhu Tuvans and the Tofa language. Today, it is spoken alongside Mongolian.[7]

Dukhan morphophonemic units are written with capital letters, similar to its sister languages and standard grammars.[1]

Classification

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Dukhan is classified in the Taiga Sayan Turkic branch of Sinerian Turkic.

Khövsgöl

Origin

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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.

Current situation

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Currently, the Dukhan language is mainly related to an amalgam of dialects from the nomadic people of Outer Mongolia, China, Russia, and surrounding areas. It is most closely related to the Tuvan language. The Dukhan language appears to be moribund.

  • Buryat is a Mongolic language spoken in Russia (in the Republic of Buryatia), and by smaller populations in Mongolia and China, in the east of Inner Mongolia. It is the language of the Buryats.
  • Tuvan (or Tuvine, Tuvinian)[8] is a language of the Turkic family spoken by nearly 130,000 Tuvans in the Republic of Tuva, Russia. Small groups speak Tuvan in Mongolia and China. Tuvan contains many words borrowed from Mongolian and has been influenced by Russian over the last hundred years.
  • Tofalar (or Tofa, Karagas) is a Turkic language spoken in the Nizhneudinsk region of the Irkutsk Oblast in Russia.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Ragagnin, Elisabetta (2011). Dukhan, a turkic variety of Northern Mongolia: description ana analysis (PDF). Turcologica. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05907-7. ISSN 0177-4743.
  2. ^ UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger Archived 22 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Ragagnin, Elisabetta (2022-12-22). "Sayan Turkic Language Islands in Mongolia: Current Issues, Future Challenges and Opportunities for Dukhan". In Ragagnin, Elisabetta; Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (eds.). Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004503502_011. ISBN 978-90-04-50350-2.
  4. ^ Ted Bergman 2011. Request for New Language Code Element in ISO 639-3
  5. ^ Comments received for ISO 639-3 Change Request 2011-057
  6. ^ Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: The Soyot Language
  7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-06. Retrieved 2014-04-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ Roland Breton, Atlas des langues du monde, Éd. Autrement, 2003 ISBN 2-7467-0400-5
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