Also Known As:
Kuznets Tatar, Kondoma Tatar, Mras-Su Tatar, шорский язык, Шор тили, šor tili, Тадар тили, tadar tili, Schoren, Minusinsk-Tataren, Şorca, Şor Türkçesi
Dialects & Varieties
- Qïzïl
- Mrassa
- Kondoma
- Qača
- SaƔay
Europe and North Asia
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.
Severely Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<10,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 4
Less than half of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing at an accelerated pace.
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Transmission
Transmission 4
Many of the grandparent generation speak the language, but younger people generally do not.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Second-language speakers and learners
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Semi-speakers or rememberers
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Children:
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Year information was gathered
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Location and Context
Countries
Siberia
Location Description
Spoken along the rivers flowing from the southwestern slopes of the
Kuznetskiy Alatau mountains in the southern parts of Kemerovo Province in the Russian Federation.
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
None
Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Writing system:
A written standard in Cyrillic script is based on Kondoma dialect.
Other writing systems used:
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Comments on writing systems:
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Recent Resources
A gallery of paintings by the Shor writer and artist Luybov Arbachakova.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Shor
A story about the last storyteller of the Shor people.
Единственный, и возможно, последний кайчи шор
Russian-speaking immigrants, but there have recently been signs of increased national and linguistic consciousness.