Chulym language

Chulym
Ось тили, тадар тили
Pronunciation[øs tilɪ ~ ø:s tilɪ], [tadar tilɪ]
Native toRussia
RegionTyukhtetsky District, Teguldetsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Tomsk Oblast
Ethnicity382 Chulyms (2021 census)[1]
Native speakers
25 (2024)[citation needed]
38 (2020 census)[2]
Dialects
  • Lower Chulym†
  • Middle Chulym
Upper Chulym/Melet
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3clw
Glottologchul1246
ELPChulym
Chulym Turk is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Chulym (in Chulym: Ось тили, Ös tili; Russian: Чулымский язык), also known as Chulim, Chulym-Turkic (not to be confused with the Turkic Siberian Tatar language) and Ös, is a critically endangered language of the Chulyms. The names which the people use to refer to themselves are 1. пистиҥ кишилер, pistɪŋ kiʃɪler (our people) and 2. ось кишилер, øs kiʃɪler (Ös people). The native designation for the language are ось тил(и), øs til(ɪ) ~ ø:s til(ɪ), and less frequently тадар тил(и), tadar til(ɪ).[3]

The language is spoken in Russia, at various locations along the Chulym River.