Dukhan language
Dukha or Dukhan is an endangered Turkic variety spoken by approximately five hundred people of the Dukhan (a.k.a. Tsaatan) 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). This language is nearly extinct and is only spoken as a second language. The ISO 639-3 proposal (request) code was dkh, but this proposal was rejected.
| Dukha | |
|---|---|
| Tsaatan | |
| тyъһа тыл Tuha tıl | |
| Native to | Mongolia |
| Region | Khövsgöl Province |
| Ethnicity | Dukha |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 500) |
Turkic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | dukh1234 |
| ELP | Dukha |
It is mostly related to the Soyot language of Buryatia. Also, it is related to the language of Tozhu Tuvans and the Tofa language. Today, it is spoken alongside Mongolian.
Dukhan morphophonemic units are written with capital letters, similar to its sister languages and standard grammars.
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