Also Known As:
Karagas, Tofalar, тофаларский язык, Tofaca, Tofa Türkçesi, Тоъфа дыл, Tòfa dıl
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
Linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison interview Spartak Dmitrievich Kongaraev regarding Tofa di
Linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison asks Tofa speaker Prokopij Ivanovich Ungushtaev to recite
Linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison interview Spartak Dmitrievich Kongaraev regarding the Tof
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
310
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Europe and North Asia." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 211-282. London & New York: Routledge.
Bibliography of Locations:
2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
Bibliography of Context:
"The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire." edited by Andrew Humphreys and Krista Mits. Online: http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook.