Tuvan language

Tuvan
Тыва дыл Tıva dıl
Native to	Russia, Mongolia, China
Region	Tuva
Ethnicity	Tuvans
Native speakers	257,750 (2020)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic South Siberian Sayan Turkic Steppe Sayan Turkic[2][notes 1] Tuvan
Writing system	Cyrillic script
Official status
Official language in	Russia  Tuva
Language codes
ISO 639-2	tyv
ISO 639-3	tyv
Glottolog	tuvi1240  Tuvinian todj1234  Todja
ELP	Tuva
	Tuha[3]
Tuvan is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Tuvan (/ˈtuːvən/) or Tyvan^[a] is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in South Central Siberia, Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language, Tibetan and the Russian languages. There are small diaspora groups of Tuvan people that speak distinct dialects of Tuvan in China and Mongolia.

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