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Name: Tofa
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Tuvin; Tuvan; Tuva; Tuvia; Tyva; Tokha; Soyot; Soyon; Soyod; Tannu-Tuva; Tuba; Tuvinian; Uriankhai; Uriankhai-Monchak; Uryankhai; Diba; Kök Mungak; Tuwa; Uryankhai-Monchak; Tuva-Uriankhai; Tuwa-Uriankhai; Sayan Samoyedic; Urjanchaisch; Sojonisch; Sojotisch; Tuvinisch; Uriangkhai; Karagas; South Siberian Turkic
Spoken in: Mongolia, China, Russia
Number of speakers: 235,000 in Russian Federation, increasing. Population total all countries: 264,400. Ethnic population: 242,500 in Russian Federation (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 242754 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 209400 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: tyv
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Turkic
Parent Subgroup: Sayan Turkic (sayt)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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