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Chulym
Spoken in:	Russia
Total speakers:	ca. 426
Language family:	Altaic  Turkic   Northeastern Turkic    Chulym
Official status
Official language in:	-
Regulated by:	No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	-
ISO 639-2:	tut
ISO 639-3:	clw
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Chulym (Russian: Чулымский язык), also known as Chulim, Chulym-Turkic, Küerik, Chulym Tatar or Melets Tatar (not to be confused with the Tatar language) is the language of the Chulyms. The name the people use to refer to themselves, and also to their language, is Ös. It is also spoken by the Kacik (Kazik, Kuarik).

This name originated from a now extinct tribe.

The language is closely related to Shor and to dialects of Khakass (Xaxas). Though considered by some as one language, the Ös speakers themselves do not believe this to be the case.

Chulym comprises distinct dialects, corresponding to locations along the Chulym river: Lower Chulym (now believed extinct), Middle Chulym, and Upper Chulym.

Chulym is a moribund language and will most likely be extinct within 25 years. It is listed in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages. Linguists Greg Anderson and K. David Harrison [1] have interviewed and recorded 20 speakers and estimate there may be between 35-40 fluent speakers out of a community of overall 426 members. The youngest fluent speaker is in his 50s.

The speakers are located in Russia, in central Siberia, north of the Altay Mountains, in the basin of the Chulym River, a tributary of the Ob River. All speakers are bilingual in Russian. In Soviet times, children were discouraged and/or punished for using the language in schools.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Ethnologue entry for Chulym

Anderson, Gregory and K. David Harrison (2003) Middle Chulym: Theoretical aspects, recent fieldwork & current state. Turkic Languages 7(2) 245-256.

Anderson, Gregory and K. David Harrison (2006) Ös tili (Middle and Upper Chulym Dialects): Towards a comprehensive documentation. Turkic Languages. 10(1) 47-71.

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