Soyot language

Soyot
Soyot
сойыт тыл
Native to	Russia, Mongolia
Region	Buryatia, Khövsgöl Province
Ethnicity	Soyots
Extinct	Second half of 20th century (partly revitalized)
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic South Siberian Sayan Turkic Taiga Sayan Turkic Soyot; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	soyo1234 Soyot
ELP	Soyot

Soyot (or Soyot–Tsaatan) is an extinct and revitalizing Turkic language of the Siberian Sayan branch similar to the Dukhan language and closely related to the Tofa language. Two dialects/languages are spoken in Russia and Mongolia: Soyot in the Okinsky District of the Republic of Buryatia (Russia) and Tsaatan (Uriankhai Uyghur) in the Darkhad valley of Mongolia.

The language is revitalizing in primary schools. In 2002, V. I. Rassadin published a Soyot–Buryat–Russian dictionary. In 2020, he published a children's book in the Soyot language, along with Russian, Mongolian, and English translations.

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