A rediscovered low-land Tofan variety

• Main Author: Ragagnin Elisabetta
• Other Authors: Ragagnin, Elisabetta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Sayan Turkic languages; endangered languages; Turkic linguistics; Settore L-OR/13 - Armenistica; Caucasologia; Mongolistica e Turcologia; Tuva; taiga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3723338

The eastern territories of Kubsugul province in northern Mongolia, i.e. east of Lake Kubsugul, are home to a small group of Sayan Turkic speakers. Their self-designation is tuha, a phonetic variant of tuva/tuba. In the available literature they are referred to as Uyghur Uriankhay. The present paper...