Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Soyote, Tuva, сойотский язык, сойоты
CLASSIFICATION		Turkic, Siberian Turkic, Sayan Turkic
ORTHOGRAPHY		Cyrillic based writing system created by Prof. Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин)
DOWNLOAD		As csv
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		For taxonomic and language revitalization purposes, Soyot is best recognized as a separate language (Juha Janhunen p.c.). Also, Soyot is linguistically very close to Tofa [kim]. (Валентин Рассадин, p.c.)

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: yes
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT: yes
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The Soyot have been assimilated by the Buryat. However, Soyot is now being taught in some elementary schools in the Oka area of Buryatia.
Scripts (Writing system): Cyrillic based writing system created by Prof. Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин)
More on Orthography: Some dictionaries complied by Prof. Rassadin have been published, including the Soyot-Buryat-Russian dictionary published in Ulan-Ude Улаан Үдэ (Republic of Buryatia), and the Soyot-Russian dictionary in Saint Petersburg.

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"Became extinct in the second half of the twentieth century"

Soyot

			3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger						UNESCO Publishing			Paris					http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub					0															Dormant ()			"Became extinct in the second half of the twentieth century"					Russia	Oka County of the Republic of Buryatia	52.0406, 101.0659
					2015	Personal Communication on Soyot															Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин)	Rassadin, Valentin I. (Валентин Рассадин). 2015. Personal Communication on Soyot.			3,608 (2010 census)					Awakening	The revitalization project is on its way.				all	Buryat		yes		The Soyot have been assimilated by the Buryat. However, Soyot is now being taught in some elementary schools in the Oka area of Buryatia.	yes	all	Awakening ()								Russia	the Oka area of the Republic of Buryatia