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Preferred term

tyvTuvinian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Tuvan (Tuvan: Тыва дыл Tyva dyl), also known as Tuvinian, Tyvan or Tuvin, is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tuva in south-central Siberia in Russia. The language has borrowed a great number of roots from the Mongolian language, Tibetan and more recently from the Russian language. There are small diaspora groups of Tuvan people that speak distinct dialects of Tuvan in the People's Republic of China and in Mongolia.

Entry terms

  • Tuvan language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • tyv

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • tyv

ISO 639-3 code

  • tyv

Notation

  • tyv

In other languages

  • touva

    French

  • Touvain
  • Tuwinisch

    German

  • Tuwinische Sprache
  • tuvinian

    Italian

  • Lingua tuvana
  • Portuguese

  • Língua tuviniana
  • tuviniano
  • tuviniano

    Spanish

  • Idioma tuvano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tyv

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