Also Known As:
Karagas, Tofalar, тофаларский язык, Tofaca, Tofa Türkçesi, Тоъфа дыл, Tòfa dıl
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
One of the two people, Varvara and Galina Adamova, sing a song in the Tofa language of Siberia
Lukeria Yakovlevna sings a version of song No.10 in Stoyanov(1980): Tofalarskie narodnye pesni, whic
Tatiana Nikolaevna recites a passage from a book called "The Man in the Moon" in the Tofa language f
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
310
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
Bibliography of Locations:
2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
Bibliography of Context:
"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.