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Europe and North Asia
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~40

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~40

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Siberia

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Location description

Spoken in the villages of Alygdzher, Nerkha and Verkhnyaya Gutara in Nizhneudinsk County in Irkutsk Province in the Russian Federation, to the south of the city of Nizhneudinsk.

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Spoken in the villages of Alygdzher, Nerkha and Verkhnyaya Gutara in Nizhneudinsk County in Irkutsk Province in the Russian Federation, to the south of the city of Nizhneudinsk.

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

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Year of info

2010

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Coordinates

53.7324,98.2589

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

28

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Ethnic Population

730

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28 (2001). Ethnic population: 730 (1989 census).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Russia;

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

310

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Ethnic Population

731

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In 1989 43%% of the ethnic population of 731, were considered to be native speakers which is approximately 310.

Year of info

1993

Location and Context

Countries

Southern Siberia

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Location description

Upper Mana and Kan rivers in the district of Krasnoyarsk, Southern Siberia.

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Upper Mana and Kan rivers in the district of Krasnoyarsk, Southern Siberia.

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Russian

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Year of info

2005

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Coordinates

53.75,98.0

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27

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  1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
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  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    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.)
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  3. World Oral Literature Project
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    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
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    http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook
  5. Europe and North Asia
    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.
  6. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  7. Tofalarskij jazyk
    Rassadin, V. I. 1997. "Tofalarskij Jazyk." In Jazyki mira: Tjurkskie jazyki, edited by E. R. Tenishev. 372-383. Indrik.
  8. Morfologija tofalarskogo jazyka v sravnitel'nom osveshchenii
    Rassadin, V. I. 1978. "Morfologija Tofalarskogo Jazyka V Sravnitel'nom Osveshchenii." Nauka.