14 Facts About Tuvan language

Tuvan is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in South-Central Siberia in Russia.

The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language, Tibetan and the Russian language.

The earliest record of Tuvan language is from the early 19th century by Wuliyasutai zhilue, Julius Klaproth 1823, Matthias Castren 1857, Katanov and Vasily Radlov, etc.

The Tuvan language people have been ruled by China, Russia and Mongolia for thousands of years.

Tuvan language, as spoken in Tuva, is principally divided into four dialect groups; Western, Central, Northeastern, Southeastern.

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One subset is the Jungar Tuvan language, originating in the Altai Mountains in the western region of Mongolia.

Vowels in Tuvan language exist in three varieties: short, long and short with low pitch.

However, Tuvan is considered a pitch accent language with contrastive low pitch instead of a tonal language.

Tuvan language has two systems of vowel harmony that strictly govern the distribution of vowels within words and suffixes.

Verbs in Tuvan language take a number of endings to mark tense, mood, and aspect.

Tuvan language vocabulary is mostly Turkic in origin but marked by a large number of Mongolian loanwords.

Current Tuvan language alphabet is a modified version of the Russian alphabet, with three additional letters: ?, ??, ??.

Bibliographic purposes, transliteration of Tuvan generally follows the guidelines described in the ALA-LC Romanization tables for non-Slavic languages in Cyrillic script.

Oirat and Tuvan children attend schools in which they use Chakhar Mongolian and Standard Chinese, native languages of neither group.