Tom Tatar dialect

Tom Tatar
Tom Tatar
Native to	Russia
Region	Kemerovo, Tomsk and Novosibirsk Oblasts
Ethnicity	Tom Tatars
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Kipchak–Kyrgyz Siberian Tatar Tom Tatar; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Eushta-Chat; Or Chat; Kalmak;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	tomm1241 Tomsk Tatar; kalm1245 Kalmak Tatar

The Tom Tatar dialect is one of three major dialects of Siberian Tatars. Eushta, Kalmak and Chat Tatars speak this dialect.

Classification

In Tumasheva's opinion, the Tom dialect is grammatically very close to Altai and related languages.²

According to Tumasheva, Tom dialect is divided into three sub-dialects:

Eushta-Chat dialect (Tomsk Oblast)
- Or sub-dialect of Chat Tatars (Novosibirsk Oblast)
Kalmak dialect (Kemerovo Oblast). (Sometimes considered a distinct language or dialect of Teleut³)

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