Endangered Languages Project

Alias		Soyote, Tuva, сойотский язык, сойоты
KLASSIFIZIERUNG		Turkic, Siberian Turkic, Sayan Turkic
ORTHGRAFIE		Cyrillic based writing system created by Prof. Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин)
DOWNLOAD		Als csv
WEITERE KOMMENTARE		For taxonomic and language revitalization purposes, Soyot is best recognized as a separate language (Juha Janhunen p.c.). Also, Soyot is linguistically very close to Tofa [kim]. (Валентин Рассадин, p.c.)

UNTERSTÜTZUNG DER REGIERUNG: yes
INSTITUTIONELLE UNTERSTÜTZUNG: yes
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KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT: The Soyot have been assimilated by the Buryat. However, Soyot is now being taught in some elementary schools in the Oka area of Buryatia.
Skripte (Schreibsysteme und Orthografien): Cyrillic based writing system created by Prof. Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин)
Rechtschreibung: Some dictionaries complied by Prof. Rassadin have been published, including the Soyot-Buryat-Russian dictionary published in Ulan-Ude Улаан Үдэ (Republic of Buryatia), and the Soyot-Russian dictionary in Saint Petersburg.

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

"Became extinct in the second half of the twentieth century"

Soyot

			3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger						UNESCO Publishing			Paris					http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub					0															Dormant ()			"Became extinct in the second half of the twentieth century"					Russia	Oka County of the Republic of Buryatia	52.0406, 101.0659
					2015	Personal Communication on Soyot															Valentin I. Rassadin (Валентин Рассадин)	Rassadin, Valentin I. (Валентин Рассадин). 2015. Personal Communication on Soyot.			3,608 (2010 census)					Awakening	The revitalization project is on its way.				all	Buryat		yes		The Soyot have been assimilated by the Buryat. However, Soyot is now being taught in some elementary schools in the Oka area of Buryatia.	yes	all	Awakening ()								Russia	the Oka area of the Republic of Buryatia