Siberian Tatar

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A language of Russian Federation

ISO 639-3
sty
Alternate Names
Eastern Tatar, Seber, Sebertatar, Siberian Turkish, Sybyr
Autonym
Себер тел‎ (Seber tel), Себертатарца‎ (Sebertatartsa), Сыбыр тел‎ (Sybyr tel), Сыбырца‎ (Sybyrtsa)
User Population

101,000 (2012 M. Sagidullin).

Location

Novosibirsk province, Omsk province, Tomsk province, and Tyumen province. Novosibirsk region and the Barabinsk steppe (Baraban dialect); Omsk and Tyumensk districts, basins of Irtysh and Tobol rivers (Tobol-Irtysh dialect); Kemerovsk and Novosibirsk districts, Tomsk district, along Tomi and Ob rivers (Tomsk dialect).

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Classification
Turkic, Western, Uralian
Dialects

Tobol-Irtysh (Tobolo-Irtysh), Baraban (Baraba, Barabinsk Tatar), Tomsk (Tom, Tomsk Tatar). Sub-dialects of Tobol-Irtysh are Zabolotny, Tobol, Tiumen, Tar, and Tevriz; sub-dialects of Tomsk are Kalmak and Chat-Eushtin.

Language Use

Home.

Language Development

Bible portions: 2019.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Siberian Tatar
Writing

Cyrillic script [Cyrl].

Other Comments

Different from Tatar [tat]. Subgroups of the Barabinsk Tatar: Barabo-Turashi, Terenino-Choi, and Liubei-Tunusy; subgroups of the Tobolo-Irtysh: Tars, Kurdak-Sargatsk, Tobolsk, Tiumen, and Iaskolbin Tatar; subgroups of the Tomsk Tatar: Kalmak, Chat, and Eushta.