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Dukhan language
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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).[1] This language is nearly extinct and is only spoken as a second language. The ISO 639-3 proposal (request) code was dkh,[3] but this proposal was rejected.[4]
Dukha | |
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Tsaatan | |
тyъһа тыл Tuha tıl | |
Native to | Mongolia |
Region | Khövsgöl Province |
Ethnicity | Dukha |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 500)[1] |
Turkic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dkh (rejected) |
Glottolog | dukh1234 |
ELP | Dukha |
![]() Dukha is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] |
It is mostly related to the Soyot language of Buryatia.[5] Also, it is related to the language of Tozhu Tuvans and the Tofa language. Today, it is spoken alongside Mongolian.[6]
Dukhan morphophonemic units are written with capital letters, similar to its sister languages and standard grammars.[1]
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