Tom Tatar dialect

Tom Tatar
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo, Tomsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts
Ethnicity	Tom Tatars
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Kyrgyz Siberian Tatar Tom Tatar
Dialects	Eushta-Chat Or Chat Kalmak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tomm1241  Tomsk Tatar kalm1245  Kalmak Tatar

Chat Tatar woman. Illustration from a book published in 1799.

The Tom Tatar dialect is one of three major dialects of Siberian Tatars. Eushta, Kalmak and Chat Tatars speak this dialect.

Classification

In Tumasheva's opinion, the Tom dialect is grammatically very close to Altai and related languages.

Dialects

According to Tumasheva, Tom dialect is divided into three sub-dialects:

• Eushta-Chat dialect (Tomsk Oblast)
  • Or sub-dialect of Chat Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast)
• Kalmak dialect (Kemerovo Oblast). (Sometimes considered a distinct language or dialect of Teleut)

See also

• Siberian Tatars
• Siberian Tatar language
• Khanate of Sibir

External links

• Д.Б.Рамазанова: Древние особенности татарских говоров Сибири. Исследование татарских говоров Сибири имеет долгую и богатую историю.
• Сибирскотатарский язык. Малые языки России.
• Information about Siberian Tatar language

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.